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sensitivity vs sensory faculty

sensory faculty vs sensitivity

sensitivity and sensory faculty both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sensitivity Yes No No No
sensory faculty Yes No No No
As nouns, sensory faculty is a hypernym of sensitivity; that is, sensory faculty is a word with a broader meaning than sensitivity:
  • sensitivity: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
  • sensory faculty: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Other hypernyms of sensitivity include sensation, sense, sentience, sentiency.
sensitivity (noun) sensory faculty (noun)
the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
susceptibility to a pathogen
Difference between sensitivity and sensory faculty

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