1. Responsiveness to emotional feelings (of oneself and others)
   "Her sensitiveness to criticism often led to hurt feelings";
   - sensitivity
    
2. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
   "The patient's sensitiveness to light suggested migraine";
   - sensitivity, sensibility
    
3. The ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences
   "the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth";
   - sensitivity
    
4. The ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
   "His sensitiveness to criticism made it difficult for him to accept feedback";
   - sensitivity

See also: insensitive, sensitive

Type of: ability, feeling, physical property, sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency

Antonym: insensitiveness

Encyclopedia: Sensitiveness