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- English Word Sensitive Definition Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.
- English Word Sensitive Definition Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
- English Word Sensitive Definition Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
- English Word Sensitive Definition Serving to affect the sense; sensible.
- English Word Sensitive Definition Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
- English Word Sensitivity Definition The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.
- English Word Sensitize Definition To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.
- English Word Sensitizer Definition An agent that sensitizes.
- English Word Sensitory Definition See Sensory.
- English Word Sensive Definition Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.
- English Word Sensor Definition Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.
- English Word Sensori-volitional Definition Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition.
- English Word Sensoria Definition of Sensorium
- English Word Sensorial Definition Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.
- English Word Sensories Definition of Sensery
- English Word Sensorium Definition The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.
- English Word Sensoriums Definition of Sensorium
- English Word Sensory Definition Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.
- English Word Sensual Definition Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.
- English Word Sensual Definition Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.