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Meanings of supersensitive in English

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

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Usage of supersensitive in English
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In stark contrast, elimination of the external binding site generated supersensitive receptors.
Pubmed
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Thus the supersensitive couple were more and more impelled to go away.
Jude the Obscure
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And what can a poor, supersensitive thing like you mean to him?
The Indian Lily and Other Stories
4
His condition makes him supersensitive to certain disturbances in the aether.
The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny
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A hard and bare youth had made me supersensitive and suspicious and narrow.
The Log-Cabin Lady — An Anonymous Autobiography
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They are very aware and supersensitive to the atmosphere around them.
The Irish Times
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I've noticed that the poor husbands of rich women are supersensitive-oftenfor cause.
The Cost
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Before any great event, or operation, Ledyard was supersensitive, highly wrought, and nervous.
The Place Beyond the Winds
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Only her hearing remained, but it was enhanced and supersensitive.
The Alchemyst
10
She meets small kindnesses at every turn, which save unnecessary jars to supersensitive nerves.
Etiquette
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Is the gratification of a supersensitive conscience to be bought at such a price?
The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ...
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She was difficult-selfish ,frightenedat any trouble, supersensitive-buta man would have understood her.
Fortitude
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And isn't he just a little supersensitive to raise a scruple of that sort?
L.P.M. : The End of the Great War
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That said, this product is probably not right for you if you have supersensitive skin.
NY Magazine
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In the very same way, organisms with supersensitive nerves feel the approach of atmospheric storms.
The Argonauts
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It was too much of a novelty, and the vibrations touched his supersensitive nerves annoyingly.
The Soul of a Child
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