supersensibilityn.
/ˌsuːpəˌsɛnsᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, /ˌsjuːpəˌsɛnsᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌsupərˌsɛnsəˈbɪlədi/ = supersensitivity n. 1.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > excessive sensitiveness
supersensibility1828
supersensitiveness1830
oversensitiveness1841
hyperaesthesia1865
hypersensitiveness1876
oversensitivity1925
hypersensitivity1954
1828 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 8 167 That the super-sensibility of that side [of the body] is to be placed to the account of inflammation of the brain..is a proposition that might startle even Dr. Clutterbuck himself.
1888 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 139 The subject's acuteness of sight and of hearing is extraordinary... This super-sensibility has given occasion to the belief in the power of somnambulists to see objects at enormous distances, or through opaque bodies.
1905 19th Century Aug. 205 This supersensibility, unless under stern control, is not devoid of danger.
1998 W. R. Winterowd Eng. Dept. vii. 187 Among the Romantics it was supersensibility that set poets apart from nonpoets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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