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Definition of "supersensitiveness" []

  • Morbid sensibility; excessive sensitiveness; extreme susceptibility. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "supersensitiveness" in a sentence
  • "Just as in pathology certain conditions similar in appearance are due, some to an excess, others to an insufficiency of tension, of secretion and so forth, so there may be vice arising from supersensitiveness just as much as from the lack of it."
  • "Although Jasper had sent a reply to her note by Moses, thanking her for her interest in his welfare and telling her of the conference at the tavern, with a woman's supersensitiveness she was most anxious as to the result; and as she saw him ride away into danger, she put her hand to her heart and, raising her eyes to heaven, prayed most fervently that he might be protected from harm."
  • "Then, as often happens when one stands in an empty room, Joan was conscious of a supersensitiveness."