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(1):

(a.) Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

(2):

(a.) Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.

(3):

(a.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.

(4):

(a.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.

(5):

(a.) Serving to affect the sense; sensible.

(6):

(a.) Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sensitive'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/sensitive.html. 1828.
 
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