sensitivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From sensitive + -ity.
Base: sensitive
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: sensitivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In any event, the incident, and the media attention it attracted, highlights the sensitivity of language politics in Singapore and is reflective of the fact that this sensitivity extends to campus life.
Owing to sensitivities about the force's capabilities, Russell is unable to say how many drones BTP has, or where and when they operate. But he does confide that the force works hand in hand with the helicopter service, and its ability to deploy drones is getting quicker.
gloss: The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
A coenzyme that exists in all living cells, NAD+ plays a central role in the body’s biological processes, such as regulating cellular energy, increasing insulin sensitivity and reversing mitochondrial dysfunction.
gloss: The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true positive being correctly identified.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Coordinate term: specificity
gloss: The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Up to 1,884 microplastic particles were found per cubic metre of seawater in some locations, up to 18 times higher than in similar tests during the last Ocean Race, which ended in 2018. Scientists noted that the sensitivity of their instruments is now higher.
gloss: The rate at which the player's facing direction or position changes relative to input device movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since he played with high sensitivity, he only needed to move the mouse a tiny distance to rotate a full 360 degrees.
gloss: The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: insensitivity
Derived words: case sensitivity
case-sensitivity
chemical sensitivity
chemosensitivity
climate sensitivity
corticosensitivity
cryosensitivity
ecosensitivity
electrosensitivity
gravisensitivity
hemosensitivity
hypersensitivity
hyposensitivity
immunosensitivity
magnetosensitivity
mechanosensitivity
meteosensitivity
multiple chemical sensitivity
offensensitivity
oversensitivity
oxidosensitivity
pansensitivity
phosphosensitivity
photosensitivity
psychrosensitivity
radiosensitivity
rejection sensitivity
sensitivity read
sensitivity reader
sensory processing sensitivity
subsensitivity
supersensitivity
thermosensitivity
triplosensitivity
ultrasensitivity
undersensitivity
unsensitivity
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: чуллі́васць
roman: čullívascʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: възприемчивост
roman: vǎzpriemčivost
lang: Dutch
word: gevoeligheid
lang: Finnish
word: havaintokyky
lang: French
word: sensibilité
lang: German
word: Empfindlichkeit
lang: Greek
word: ευαισθησία
roman: evaisthisía
lang: Hungarian
word: érzékenység
lang: Italian
word: sensibilità
lang: Korean
word: 감수성
roman: gamsuseong
lang: Romanian
word: sensibilitate
lang: Russian
word: чувстви́тельность
roman: čuvstvítelʹnostʹ
lang: Russian
word: восприи́мчивость
roman: vospriímčivostʹ
lang: Spanish
word: sensibilidad
lang: Spanish
word: sensitividad
lang: Tagalog
word: pagkamatugunin
lang: Ukrainian
word: чутли́вість
roman: čutlývistʹ