Term: defensiveness: excessive sensitivity to criticism
Candidate hypernym: attribute: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity → 1
Candidate hypernym: joint: a disreputable place of entertainment → 0
Candidate hypernym: analgesia: absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness → 0
Candidate hypernym: tamil: a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka → 0
Candidate hypernym: suspicion: being of a suspicious nature → 0
Candidate hypernym: reconciliation: getting two things to correspond → 0
Candidate hypernym: permanent tooth: any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age → 0
Candidate hypernym: transcendence: the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits → 0
Candidate hypernym: urolith: a urinary stone → 0
Candidate hypernym: hyperbaton: reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love') → 0
Candidate hypernym: sutler: a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army → 0