sensitivity

Noun

• the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

• susceptibility to a pathogen

• sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)

• 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
    

• (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
  • sensitivity to pain
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  sensitiveness , predisposition , sensibility
• Antonyms: 
  insensitivity , insensitiveness