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Sensitivity
- noun - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"
- sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
- susceptibility to a pathogen
- the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
- the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"; "the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth"
Sensitizers
- noun - (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction
Sensitizing
- verb - cause to sense; make sensitive; "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"; "My tongue became sensitized to good wine"
- make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film"
- make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs"
- make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen"
- making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli
- rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections
Sentiencies
- noun - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"
Sentimental
- adjective - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
- given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
Septic Tank
- noun - large tank where solid matter or sewage is disintegrated by bacteria
Septicaemia
- noun - invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection
Septiferous
- - Bearing a partition; -- said of the valves of a capsule.
Septifluous
- - Flowing in seven streams; septemfluous.
Septifragal
- - Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.