Meanings of peculiar sensitiveness in English

The presence of Cecilia exasperated Rosamund's peculiar sensitiveness.

The peculiar sensitiveness of the southern white men for women, never shed its protecting influence about them.

She was very ill, and the remedies employed took an unusual effect on her peculiar sensitiveness of constitution.

The same peculiar sensitiveness impelled Mr. Goodchild, on being taxed with the same crime, to repudiate it with honourable resentment.

The medical treatment to which my poor Mother was subjected was very painful, and she had a peculiar sensitiveness to pain.

From some peculiar sensitiveness of temperament, I can never sleep unless every ray of light is shut out from my chamber.

Strange to say, the good, simple woman, and the good, shrewd man had both divined Frank's peculiar sensitiveness, and respected it.

The peculiar sensitiveness of a mind ever searching, burrowing in, and feeding upon itself struck a jarring note upon its healthier companion.

An attentive or excited crowd is always very impressionable, but this peculiar sensitiveness was perhaps stronger in the Middle Ages than at any other time.

Peculiar sensitiveness to sights, sounds and smells seems to be a common attribute of genius.