sensory faculty vs sensitivity

sensory faculty and sensitivity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sensory faculty	Yes	No	No	No
sensitivity	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sensitivity is a hyponym of sensory faculty; that is, sensitivity is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sensory faculty:

sensory faculty: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
sensitivity: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation

Other hyponyms of sensory faculty include modality, sense modality, sensory system, sensibility, sensitiveness.

sensory faculty (noun)	sensitivity (noun)
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended	the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences
	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

sensory faculty vs sensitivity

sensory faculty and sensitivity both are nouns.

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