sensitiveとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus.

発音

• (米国発音, 英国発音) enPR: sĕn'sĭtĭv, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnsɪtɪv/

形容詞

sensitive (comparative more sensitive, superlative most sensitive)

1. Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection i:

     The sensitive faculty most part overrules reason, the soul is carried hoodwinked, and the understanding captive like a beast.

2. Responsive to stimuli.
3. (of a person) Easily offended, upset or hurt.

   Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.

4. (of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.

   Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.

5. Meant to be concealed or kept secret.

   These are highly sensitive documents.

6. Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy.

   The president's untimely statement disrupted some very sensitive negotiations.

7. (of an instrument) Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
8. (archaic) Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.

同意語

• tender
• nesh
• precise
• compassionate
• caring
• classified
• aware

反意語

• insensitive
• nonsensitive
• resistant
• stoic
• uncaring

下位語

• hypersensitive
• light-sensitive

派生語

関連する語

• sense

名詞

sensitive (複数形 sensitives)

1. A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 72:

     [I]t is quite certain that many of their fears were unfounded, and centred upon perfectly innocent people - especially those who were what we now call "mediumistic" or "sensitives".

   • 2003, Frederic W.H. Myers, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death Part 2

     Swedenborg was one of the leading savants of Europe; it would be absurd to place any of our sensitives on the same intellectual level.