sensitiveness
nounEtymology From sensitive + -ness.
1
The quality or degree of being sensitive.
2
The ability to perceive sensation.
3
The ability to be aware of (and, usually, react with regard to) the feelings of others.
- How wrong I was! wit, with him, was only the sparkle of the waters which hide precious things in the depths below. I can enter into the sensitiveness which is fain to keep that which it prizes most dearly, hidden from a cold and mocking world.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXI. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 159:
- Synonyms
- sensitivity