Sensitiveness

Word SENSITIVENESS
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His great sensitiveness is touchingly shown in his representation of this first contact with the Lord; the circumstances are present to him in the minutest details; he still remembers the Very hour. ❋ Unknown (1871)

‘Yes; — but the worst of it is, that when they suffer from this weakness, which you call sensitiveness, they think that they are made of finer material than other people. ❋ Unknown (1876)

"Yes; -- but the worst of it is, that when they suffer from this weakness, which you call sensitiveness, they think that they are made of finer material than other people. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

The term “allergy” can be defined as the sensitiveness of body to a particular food, substance or odour which primarily does not affect other persons. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their sensitiveness is a thing we have been trained, for self-defence, to repress. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It might be a mere fancy springing from a jealous sensitiveness, which is disappointed if it be not paid in the full measure of its own coin. ❋ John Turvill Adams (N/A)

The French call sensitiveness to insignificant and worthless things, the German way of quarreling (faire querelle d'allemand). ❋ Unknown (1911)

But in ascending the series from simple twiners to leaf-climbers, an important quality is added, namely sensitiveness to a touch, by which means the foot-stalks of the leaves or flowers, or these modified and converted into tendrils, are excited to bend round and clasp the touching object. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The Japanese desire to conform to the customs and appearances of those about him is due to what I have called sensitiveness; his success is due to the flexibility of his mental constitution. ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)

His sensitiveness was a disease, his pride was the only thing that kept him going; his love of her, strong as it was, would be drowned in an imagined shame! ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

These persons are of a morbid sensitiveness, which is perpetually galled by collision with others. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

The precise value of the Monroe doctrine is understood very loosely by most Americans, but the effect of the familiar phrase has been to develop a national sensitiveness, which is a more frequent cause of war than material interests; and over disputes caused by such feelings there will preside none of the calming influence due to the moral authority of international law, with its recognized principles, for the points in dispute will be of policy, of interest, not of conceded right. ❋ Unknown (1877)

Growing refinement brings with it to the Negro all that sensitiveness which is accorded to refined people wherever found, and naturally he recoils from rebuffs, insults, and contumely, and holds himself aloof more and more only as business demands contact. ❋ Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp (N/A)

The Romantic Movement was not merely a new way of considering human beings in their public capacity; it meant also a new kind of sensitiveness to their environment. ❋ Sydney Waterlow (1911)

As a vast number of species, belonging to widely distinct groups, are endowed with this kind of sensitiveness, it ought to be found in a nascent condition in many plants which have not become climbers. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Group-consciousness would cause the spreading and equalization of that spiritual sensitiveness which is, as a matter of fact, very unequally distributed amongst men. ❋ Evelyn Underhill (1908)

And with all that, a quivering sensitiveness which is again like our own -- the sensitiveness of times of intense culture, wherein the abuse of thought has multiplied the ways of suffering in exasperating the desire for pleasure. ❋ Louis Bertrand (1903)

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