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1. Responsive to physical stimuli
   "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"
    
2. Being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others
   "sensitive to the local community and its needs"
    
3. Able to feel or perceive
   - sensible
    
4. Hurting
   - sore, raw, tender
    
5. Of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security

1. Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
   - medium, spiritualist

Derived forms: sensitives

See also: alive, aware, classified, cognisant [Brit], cognizant, conscious, delicate, erogenous, excitable, feisty, highly sensitive, huffy, irritable, light-sensitive, nociceptive, oversensitive, painful, photosensitive, radiosensitive, reactive, responsive, sense, sensitively, sensitiveness, sensitivity, susceptible, thin-skinned, touchy

Type of: psychic

Antonym: insensitive

Encyclopedia: Sensitive