Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Highly or excessively sensitive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Excessively sensitive.
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- adjective
Highly orabnormally sensitive to astimulus , especially to someallergen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)
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Examples
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How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution.
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Other scientists are exploring personal qualities that span phylogenies and allegories: Recent research suggests that highly sensitive, arty-type humans have a lot in common with squealing pigs and twitchy mice, and that to call a hypersensitive person thin-skinned or touchy might hold a grain of physical truth.
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In the cabin, I would enter a kind of hypersensitive trance that allowed me to average four hundred pages a day.
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In the cabin, I would enter a kind of hypersensitive trance that allowed me to average four hundred pages a day.
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In her blog item, Granger, an African American, admitted to being "hypersensitive" given "the historical context of black people voting in america sic."
Brad Friedman: Black Voter in Philly Forced to Swear on Bible Before Casting Vote Brad Friedman 2010
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In her blog item, Granger, an African American, admitted to being "hypersensitive" given "the historical context of black people voting in america sic."
Brad Friedman: Black Voter in Philly Forced to Swear on Bible Before Casting Vote Brad Friedman 2010
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Kristol says that the optics of criticizing SCOTUS judges at the State of the Union address is bad, but that lawyers and judges are "hypersensitive" and shouldn't feel immune to criticism.
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The announcement by the host of the "Dr. Laura" program was a stunning denouement after a week in which Schlessinger was widely criticized for describing an African American caller to her program as "hypersensitive" for taking offense at a neighbor's racial taunting.
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Kristol says that the optics of criticizing SCOTUS judges at the State of the Union address is bad, but that lawyers and judges are "hypersensitive" and shouldn't feel immune to criticism.
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If you have a problem with the swastika, you're just being "hypersensitive," according to her.
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