oversensitivity
nounEtymology From over- + sensitivity.
1
The state or quality of being excessively sensitive.
- Near-synonym: hypersensitivity
- While this must be hard on Kate and Gerry McCann, it is also a sign that their campaign was extraordinarily successful, so successful that a culture of oversensitivity has long swirled in the slipstream.2009 January 11, Barbara Ellen, “Barbara Ellen: Rachida - this was an act of weakness, not strength”, in The Observer: