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A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.
adjective
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Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
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Responsive to stimuli.
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(of a person) Easily offended, upset or hurt.
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Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.
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(of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
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Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.
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Meant to be concealed or kept secret.
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These are highly sensitive documents.
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(of an instrument) Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
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Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.
Examples of sensitive in a Sentence
I didn't realize you were so sensitive about it.
Well; sometimes girls are more sensitive about things.
I'm sensitive about things like that.
The brightness of every room made his sensitive eyes squint.
If I was a bit more sensitive, I might have stopped her.
Actually there was nothing sensitive about Russell Cade.
They burned her sensitive skin.
She couldn't help hurting for him, all too sensitive to the scars left by her own past.
Hence devices for detecting the oscillations in the antenna are merely very sensitive forms of ammeter and voltmeter.
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.
The cause of this indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by the sight of the killed and wounded.
She was sensitive to any change in his habits.
He took in the gilded sconces and carved statues until his sensitive eyes watered, and he closed his eyes to the torch light.
He discovered a fact subsequently rediscovered by others, that a tube of metallic filings, loosely packed, was sensitive to electric sparks made in its vicinity, its electrical resistance being reduced, and he was able to detect effects on such a tube connected to a battery and telephone at a distance of 500 yds.'
He has suffered so many disappointments and is so sensitive, said she to the mother.
Thus a latent image of the " reseau-lines " will be formed on the sensitive plate, and, when the latter has been exposed to the sky in the telescope, we obtain, on development, a negative of the images both of the stars and of the reseau-lines.
Hughes was a far more sensitive detector.
Instead of inserting the sensitive tube between the receiving antenna and the earth, he inserted the primary coil of a peculiar form of oscillation transformer and connected the terminals of the tube to the secondary circuit of the transformer.
The shape of the distribution is clearly sensitive to the shape of the input gluon distribution.
It is true, the more sensitive and imaginative the mind is that receives the thought-pictures and images of literature, the more nicely the finest lines are reproduced.
Side effects are rare but they can happen in some sensitive individual.
Now they could discuss things instead of avoiding sensitive subjects - build on their relationship instead of tearing it down with the same demolition ball.
A vast improvement in this instrument was made by the invention of the quadrant electrometer by Lord Kelvin, which is the most sensitive form of electrometer yet devised.
Guided by these experiments, Ayrton, Perry and Sumpner constructed an improved unifilar quadrant electrometer which was not only more sensitive than the White pattern, but fulfilled the theoretical law of working.
Thus a sensitive galvanometer will show a weak current if a copper wire connected in circuit with it be warmed at one point.
The deep impression produced upon a sensitive mind by the silent and solemn grandeur of this mountain pass is indescribable.
The eyes are especially sensitive to microwaves, whose energy is readily absorbed by the internal fluid, the aqueous humor.
Platinum doesn't tarnish, and for those with sensitive skin, it is also hypoallergenic, making it comfortable to wear.
Its body is not imbued with sensitive reactive presence.
To study repair, we have developed a sensitive immunoassay which uses antibodies to measure UV damage.
Greig, who was sensitive to anything he considered too indelicate for publication, put a red pencil through some of the cruder ditties.
The comparatively low currents also make the inverter less sensitive to layout and stray inductance.
A flexible and sensitive approach will be taken to how and when the RT will obtain informed consent.
We have also used the sensitive potato invertase mini-exon system to systematically mutate the sequence surrounding the branchpoint and the polypyrimidine tract.
These long and arduous journeys across Europe can last many days, causing terrible suffering to these sensitive and intelligent animals.
This in turn leads to inflammatory substances being released into the blood, which supplies the sensitive laminae of the cow's feet.
The pain is caused by pinching and inflammation of the sensitive hoof laminae at the edge of the crack.
Rather like the ozone octane in this respect, it needs to be " under-steered " and demands a sensitive pilot.
A more sensitive approach to riverbank management needs to be encouraged to protect water voles.
Your baby has sensitive skin all over her body.
Similarly, sensitive skin or an allergy to fabrics, sometimes known as contact dermatitis, may also cause a rash.
If you knew Mr. Cade nearly as well as you think you do, you would know that he is actually very sensitive.
It was found impossible to make the Morse ink writer so sensitive that it could record signals sent over land lines of several hundred miles in length, if the speed of transmission was very much faster than that which could be effected by hand, and this led to the adoption of automatic methods of transmission.
Lodge arranged a mechanical tapper for the purpose which continually administered the small blow to the tube sufficient to keep the filings in a sensitive condition.
In later improvements the secondary circuit of this jigger was interrupted by a small condenser, and the terminals of the relay and local cell were connected to the plates of this condenser, whilst the sensitive tube was attached to the outer ends of the secondary circuit.
Fleming 5 invented special forms of the metallic contact or metallic filings sensitive tube.
It climbs by means of the long stalk of the peltate leaf which is sensitive to contact like a tendril.
The chief difficulty with this form of instrument is that it is very sensitive to changes of temperature, for such changes not only alter M but also in general cause the centre of gravity of the system to be displaced with reference to the knife-edge.
Yet the sejm, so sensitive to its own privileges, allowed the insult to the king and the injury to the state to pass unnoticed, conniving at the destruction of the national navy and the depletion of the treasury, "lest warships should make the crown too powerful."
When man has advanced so far as to be sensitive to the opinions of his fellow-men, their approbation and disapprobation reinforce the influence of natural selection.