Definition of Sensitive

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Sensitive

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.

Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.

Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.

Serving to affect the sense; sensible.

Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.

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Sensitive Quotations

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan Watts

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
Mike Tyson

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
Emma Goldman

Sensitive Translations

sensitive in Afrikaans is sensitief
sensitive in Dutch is gevoelig, ontvankelijk, receptief
sensitive in French is sensible, sensibiliser, susceptible
sensitive in Italian is sensibile, sensibile
sensitive in Spanish is puntuoso, sensible

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