Supersensitive: alternatives and connections

Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.

Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.

A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride o…

Not sensitive; not acute.

A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used…

Accountable; responsible; sensitive.

Sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious.

An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action…

Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music.

The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and end…

To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators deve…

A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness…

Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.

Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.

Strung to a high pitch; spirited; sensitive; as, a high-strung horse.

A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it.