hypersensitivity
/ˌhʌɪpəˌsɛnsɪˈtɪvɪti
/noun [mass noun]
1Extreme physical sensitivity to particular substances or conditions: hypersensitivity to common chemicals...
- Personnel can perform diagnostic tests to confirm the diagnosis of latex hypersensitivity.
- The mechanism would appear most likely to be a rare allergic hypersensitivity and not direct toxicity.
- It is possible that factors in patients' diet or lifestyle may make them more vulnerable to hypersensitivity reactions to some herbs.
2A tendency to be easily hurt, worried, or offended: hypersensitivity to criticism...
- The idiotic hypersensitivity of the media continues to search for new and stupid things to take offense at.
- I think that hypersensitivity to wording choices in a story like this does a real disservice to readers.
- The diplomat's remarks reveal the acute awareness of image that Germans took on after World War II - a hypersensitivity to world opinion that is as unlike brash American insouciance as, well, defeat is to victory.
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