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Meanings of hypersensitive in English

Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)

Related terms

Excessively sensitive.

Usage of hypersensitive in English
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Purpose: Food allergy is a hypersensitive immune response to specific food proteins.
Pubmed
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I also asked myself if I had been too proud, too hypersensitive.
Bring the Jubilee
3
We further show that 18 candidate effectors can suppress plant hypersensitive responses.
Pubmed
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On patrol with Stopkham The group is hypersensitive about protecting its reputation.
The Guardian
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He would come off as some combination of uncouth and comically hypersensitive.
Seveneves
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The storm made her even more alert, hypersensitive to sound and movement.
Rose in a storm
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Phoebe was hypersensitive about what she termed her membership in Crazies Unlimited.
Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
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She gasped at the sensation of his fingers on her hypersensitive flesh.
Rock my world
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She saw it, and in her hypersensitive condition recognized it instantly.
Gold of the Gods
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Sport mode errs on the side of aggressive twitchiness and hypersensitive throttle response.
BBC
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Only the hypersensitive Vera was disturbed by the monotonous beating of restless wings.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
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She moaned softly at the touch, her fingers' destination already hypersensitive and ready.
Night tides
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Investing emotionally in injustices and being hypersensitive to tragedies is taxing.
Ebony
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Her skin had become hypersensitive, feeling the rasp of her T-shirt.
Sushi for one?
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I'm prickling everywhere-alongmy neck and down my arms, feeling hypersensitive and overheated.
Sweet Filthy Boy
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A woman who has gone through Mrs. Clarke's ordeal is generally hypersensitive afterwards.
In the Wilderness
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