单词 | oversensitiveness |
释义 | oversensitivenessn. Excessive or undue sensitiveness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > excessive sensitiveness supersensibility1828 supersensitiveness1830 oversensitiveness1841 hyperaesthesia1865 hypersensitiveness1876 oversensitivity1925 hypersensitivity1954 1841 N. Amer. Rev. July 254 Such objections appear to us to be founded on an over-sensitiveness about the moral progress of the pupil. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist III. x. 209 Beware of oversensitiveness, where nature has plainly indicated her alternative gateway of knowledge. 1925 Social Forces 4 114/2 The shyness and over-sensitiveness that characterizes many rural people. 1991 C. Hammond How to use Homeopathy (BNC) 115 Great irritability and oversensitiveness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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