sensitivity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
    sensitiveness; sensibility.
    • sensitivity to pain
  2. noun the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences
    sensitiveness.
    • a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity
    • the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth
  3. noun sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
    sensitiveness.
  4. noun susceptibility to a pathogen
    predisposition.
  5. noun the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
    sensitiveness.

WordNet

Sen`si*tiv"i*ty noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.
    Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the scientific term for the capacity of feeling. Hickok.

Webster 1913