sensitiveness
sensitiveness noun: the quality or degree of being sensitive.
Noun
sensitiveness (countable and uncountable, plural sensitivenesses)
- The quality or degree of being sensitive.
- The ability to perceive sensation.
- The ability to be aware of (and, usually, react with regard to) the feelings of others.
- How wrong I was! wit, with him, was only the sparkle of the waters which hide precious things in the depths below. I can enter into the sensitiveness which is fain to keep that which it prizes most dearly, hidden from a cold and mocking world.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXI. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 159
sensitiveness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Odia
sensitiveness in Tamil
- உணர்தன்மை, உணாவு நுட்பம், விளைவு நுட்பம்
sensitiveness in Urdu
- حس, ذکاوت
sensitiveness in Odia
- sensitiveness
- ମାନ māna
Synonyms of sensitiveness
Forms of sensitiveness
| plural | sensitivenesses |
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Origin of sensitiveness
From sensitive + -ness.
Questions about sensitiveness
- What does sensitiveness mean?
- Sensitiveness means the quality or degree of being sensitive.
- What is sensitiveness in Tamil?
- Sensitiveness in Tamil is உணர்தன்மை, உணாவு நுட்பம், விளைவு நுட்பம். See Sensitiveness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sensitiveness?
- Sensitiveness is a noun.
- What is the plural of sensitiveness?
- The plural of sensitiveness is sensitivenesses.
Words near sensitiveness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sensitiveness (page history and authors); sensitiveness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sensitiveness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ମାନ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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