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oversensitivity

/oh-ver-sen-si-tiv/US // ˈoʊ vərˈsɛn sɪ tɪv //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈsɛnsɪtɪv) //

过度敏感,过敏症,过分敏感,过敏性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : excessively or unduly sensitive.

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Examples

  • Neither she nor her brothers understood their oversensitive relative.

  • The rigorous altitude of intellect in which she was reared served as a corrective to the oversensitive quality of her imagination.

  • The whole self is oversensitive, and the very inflection of a voice has enormous significance.

  • Some, which I found had offended the oversensitive and irritable tempers of certain persons, I struck out.

  • In the debate as to whether there should be veal loaf or poached egg on hash, she had no chance to be heretical and oversensitive.