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Hypersensitive

adjective

Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor). Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized. "Hypersensitive to pollen"

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"Hypersensitive" Quotes from Famous Books

... future together many times. I knew what Miss Pettigrew's views were and I suspect that my mother was in full agreement with them. Owing to the emotional strain to which I had been subjected I may have been in a hypersensitive condition. I seemed to detect in my mother's confident prophecy an allusion to Miss Pettigrew's plans. Women, even women like my mother, are greatly wanting in delicacy. I was so much afraid of her saying something more on the subject that I bade Miss ...

— Lalage's Lovers - 1911 • George A. Birmingham

... hours he steadied himself with a singular half-realised belief that she would not—that somehow some strange thing would be left to her, whatsoever was taken away. It was because he felt as if he were nearing the end of his tether. He had become hypersensitive to noises, to the sounds in the streets, to the strain and grief in faces he saw as ...

— Robin • Frances Hodgson Burnett

Words linked to "Hypersensitive" : hypersensitivity, susceptible