Betydelse av sensitiveness på svenska

• 0 the quality of being easily upset by the things people say or do:

  • Because of her sensitiveness, she had few friends.

  • He was a little ashamed of his sensitiveness to criticism.

  • I fully realize the sensitiveness of the issue.

• 1 the quality of understanding what other people need, and being helpful and kind to them:

  • It was his senstiveness and kindness that drew me to him.

  • It is a book of the utmost sensitiveness and compassion.

• 2 the quality of being easily influenced, changed, or damaged, especially by a physical activity or effect:

  • An allergy can be described as sensitiveness of the body to a substance that does not normally affect other people.

  • The sensitiveness of the instrument can be adjusted.