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hypersensitive
/ˌhaɪpɚˈsɛnsɪtɪv/
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What does hypersensitive mean?
adjective
- Highly or abnormally sensitive to some substances or agents, especially to some allergen.
- Excessively sensitive; easily offended.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌhaɪpɚˈsɛnsɪtɪv/
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But, perhaps, because of the continual business of birth and of begetting which goes on upon every farm, Miriam was the more hypersensitive to the matter, and her blood was chastened almost to disgust of the faintest suggestion of such intercourse.
It is like a watch with a spring or a wheel taken out; it may run, but never quite right; it is hypersensitive and easily thrown out of balance by any adverse influence.