sensitivities
- 1Plural of sensitivity.
The diplomat chose her words carefully to avoid offending local sensitivities.
Allergy testing revealed several food sensitivities the patient had never suspected.
Note
Every meaning of sensitivity can be counted or left uncounted, and the plural is the form you reach for when you count. In everyday use it usually means a group's feelings and susceptibilities, the things that can give offense. In technical writing it compares measured responses: the sensitivities of two diagnostic tests, of several instruments, or of a film to different wavelengths of light.
sensitivities is a form of sensitivity
sensitivity, noun: The quality or state of being sensitive: readily affected by, or responsive to, feelings, impressions, and subtle differences. Full entry
- Forms
- sensitivitysensitivities plural
- Spelling
- sensitivity → sensitivities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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