supersensitivityn.

1866 Temperance Spectator Mar. 41/2 The wish of numbers to cooperate in a cause they espouse in common, would be impeded or frustrated on account of the super-sensitivity of some delicate souls, unable to bear a single zephyr of courteous enquiry.

1913 Dental Cosmos 55 411/1 The surplus of blood in the part goes into the pulp, hence its hyperemia and supersensitivity, and hence its response to cold.

1926 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 128/1 (advt.) This detector is fixed under a five pound pressure—retains its super sensitivity—it won't burn out.

1950 Rotarian July 57/3 Supersensitivity to criticism.

1970 E. Birnbaum Politics Compromise i. 25 Equally important to the maintenance of coalition government is the stance of the international community and its supersensitivity to religious crises affecting the Holy Land.

1997 W. I. Miller Anat. Disgust i. 15 We try to kill with self-deception..that late-adolescent super-sensitivity to the ugliness of age and slow decay.

2008 N. W. Brown Dead-end Lovers iv. 53 Overly sensitive people have to be hypervigilant because nothing, or little, in their lives has been consistent, predictable...They adopted this supersensitivity as a means of control and survival.

1949 W. B. Cannon & A. Rosenblueth Supersensitivity of Denervated Struct. ii. 11 The term supersensitivity covers several possibly different phenomena.

1963 Pharmacol. Rev. 13 226 The changes and modifications of dose-response curves of sympathomimetic amines by various drugs or procedures known to cause super- and subsensitivity to this group of substances.

1974 Sci. Amer. Jan. 48/3 This partial denervation could conceivably lead to chemical supersensitivity, accessory sprouting of collateral nerve fibers or the formation of new synaptic contacts.

2010 M. C. Brodsky Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmol. (ed. 2) vi. 260 Cholinergic supersensitivity of the iris sphinctor may develop in any oculomotor palsy with pupillary involvement.