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superˈsensitive, a.
[super- 9 a.]
Extremely or excessively sensitive. Cf. supersensitivity 2. Hence superˈsensitively adv., superˈsensitiveness.
In first quot. a mistranslation of G. übersinnlich (see supersensual 1 note and quot. 1833).
1839J. Birch tr. Goethe's Faust 182 Thou super-sensitive, most sensual wooer!—A girl nose-leads the mighty-doer! 1840Hood Open Quest. iv, What is the brute profanity that shocks The super-sensitively-serious feeling? 1864Webster, Supersensitiveness, excessive or over-sensitiveness; morbid sensibility. 1880E. S. Phelps Sealed Orders 300 Her supersensitive ear detects the scratch of her mother's pen. 1891Hardy Tess xxxvi, The self-combating proclivity of the supersensitive. 1895J. Chamberlain in Westm. Gaz. 22 July 2/3 That sectional supersensitiveness which tends to keep apart the two wings of the great National party. 1949Cannon & Rosenblueth Supersensitivity of Denervated Structures ii. 11 They are often quite easily rendered supersensitive to some agent, e.g., adrenaline, by preliminary treatment with one or another chemical substance, e.g., cocaine or thyroxine. 1962Nature 3 Feb. 487/1 The increased secretory activity seen in the supersensitive submaxillary glands. 1978Life Sciences XXIII. 1283 Rats were supersensitive to norepinephrine as well as to dopamine. |