Definition of Sensitivity

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Definition of Sensitivity
	Sensitivity The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver. Related Definitions: And, As, Being, Chiefly, In, Iodized, Of, Or, Quality, Science, Sensitive, Sensitivity, Silver, State, The, Used

Sensitivity Quotations

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal

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

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
Temple Grandin

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Mario Puzo

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
David Rockefeller

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
Naguib Mahfouz

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
Joni Mitchell

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
Edouard Manet

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.
Clifford Geertz

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.
Martin Feldstein

Sensitivity Translations

sensitivity in German is Empfindlichkeit

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