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sensitivity vs perceptiveness

perceptiveness vs sensitivity

sensitivity and perceptiveness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sensitivity Yes No No No
perceptiveness Yes No No No
As nouns, perceptiveness is a hyponym of sensitivity; that is, perceptiveness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sensitivity:
  • sensitivity: the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
  • perceptiveness: the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding
Other hyponyms of sensitivity include antenna, feeler, defensiveness.
sensitivity (noun) perceptiveness (noun)
the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding
the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation perception of that which is obscure
sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) a feeling of understanding
susceptibility to a pathogen
Difference between sensitivity and perceptiveness

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