How To Use Sensitiveness In A Sentence
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-- The same Captain of Engineers has undertaken a series of very interesting experiments on the sensitiveness to light of one or two substances to which bitumen probably owes its sensitiveness, but which, contrary to what takes place with bitumen, are capable of rendering very beautiful half tones, both on polished zinc and on albumenized paper.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
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But in ascending the series from simple twiners to leaf-climbers, an important quality is added, namely sensitiveness to a touch, by which means the foot-stalks of the leaves or flowers, or these modified and converted into tendrils, are excited to bend round and clasp the touching object.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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His sensitiveness was a disease, his pride was the only thing that kept him going; his love of her, strong as it was, would be drowned in an imagined shame!
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth
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The sensitiveness of the suggestive language could be carried into the music and orchestral setting.
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The sensitiveness belonging to living substance, known by the names heliotropism, chemotropism, etc., is like a sketch of sensation and of the reactions following it; organic memory is the basis and the obliterated form of conscious memory.
Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English
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He appealed to his son's sensitiveness, and assured him that he would be "flayed" unless he wrapped himself in the hide of a rhinoceros.
The Life of John Ruskin
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It will be seen that, upon combining all the elements of the apparatus, we can obtain very different combinations; and, according to the inventor, his rheometer is a substitute for a dozen galvanometers of various degrees of sensitiveness, and permits of measuring currents of from 20 amperes down to 1/50000000 an ampere.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
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It is true that under the conditions we are considering there may be an extreme sensitiveness to stimuli not usually felt as of sexual character, a kind of hyperesthesia; but hyperesthesia, it has well been said, is nothing but the beginning of anesthesia. [
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
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A judge shall behave with dignity, correctitude and sensitiveness towards the public interest, in his social life.
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*** “The next class of processes are dependent on the sensitiveness to light of the salts of uranic oxide or sesquioxide of uranium, U2O3.”
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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I have used for the solution of the uranic oxide for this process a variety of acids with very similar results; the sensitiveness of the prepared paper to light varying much, however.
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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As regards the former, leucocytes are guided chiefly by chemiotaxis, _i. e._ by sensitiveness to chemical substances in their surroundings -- a property which is not peculiar to them but is possessed by various unicellular organisms, including motile bacteria.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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The term “allergy” can be defined as the sensitiveness of body to a particular food, substance or odour which primarily does not affect other persons.
Natural Remedies for Curing Allergies
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It might be a mere fancy springing from a jealous sensitiveness, which is disappointed if it be not paid in the full measure of its own coin.
The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
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Extreme sensitiveness is apt to accompany a spirit of just his high-strung, petulant, and spleenful sort.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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He wants a mural that will edify, inspire, or entertain; the artist wants license to experiment and thereby ‘extend human sensitiveness through paint’.
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*** “The next class of processes are dependent on the sensitiveness to light of the salts of uranic oxide or sesquioxide of uranium, U2O3.”
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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On the other hand, if a true arthritis is incited, there will be evident distress manifested, such as hurried respiration, accelerated pulse, inappetence, mixed lameness, local evidence of inflammation and particularly marked supersensitiveness of the affected parts.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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It is more sensitive when applied on cotton or paper than on wool, silk, linen, and such organic compounds as gelatine, albumen, caseine, starch, etc. Its sensitiveness is about one-tenth less with gelatine than with cotton.
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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The woman's strength and determination contrasted with the man's weakness and vacillation; her reasoning imperturbation, prudent foresight, and love of order and activity, with his excessive irritability and sensitiveness, wanton carelessness, and unconquerable propensity to idleness and every kind of irregularity.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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His great sensitiveness is touchingly shown in his representation of this first contact with the Lord; the circumstances are present to him in the minutest details; he still remembers the Very hour.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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With a few exceptions, nearly all these powders are nitro compounds, and chiefly consist of some form of nitro-cellulose, either in the form of nitro-cotton or nitro-lignine; or else contain, in addition to the above, nitro-glycerine, with very often some such substance as camphor, which is used to reduce the sensitiveness of the explosive.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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The world over, the public image of a company's brands is largely determined by its sensitiveness to environmental issues and this has successfully contributed to a marked decline in industrial pollution.
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‘Yes; — but the worst of it is, that when they suffer from this weakness, which you call sensitiveness, they think that they are made of finer material than other people.
The Prime Minister
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female sensitiveness
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The sphere s should be small and of uniform thickness; any dissymmetry of course has the effect to diminish the sensitiveness.
Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
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He also speaks of the sensitiveness of "plasm," or the substance of "living bodies," as being "only a superior degree of the general irritability of substance.
A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga
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The French call sensitiveness to insignificant and worthless things, the German way of quarreling (faire querelle d'allemand).
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
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Thus, the Moon provides intuition and sensitiveness when positioned in a water sign, and the desire to internally experience the Sun's drive.
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Their sensitiveness is a thing we have been trained, for self-defence, to repress.
The Growth of the Soil
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M. Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condition at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M. Waldman.
Chapter 5
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It may be that she needs her eyes open because the seeing of the members of the family may heighten by a kind of autosuggestion her sensitiveness for the perception of the slight signs.
Psychology and Social Sanity
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It dissects (a shade too scientifically and cold-bloodedly at times perhaps) the sentiments and emotions associated with attack and defence; the impulses that eventuate in heroism; the alternating super-sensitiveness and callousness of the nerves; fear and the mastery of fear; the 'hope deferred that maketh the heart sick'; the devious stratagems of the terrible 'cafard' (blues).
The Jervaise Comedy
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The Japanese desire to conform to the customs and appearances of those about him is due to what I have called sensitiveness; his success is due to the flexibility of his mental constitution.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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Though it did not in the least terrify me or torture me, or make me have anything approaching a dread of its repetition, I experienced a kind of rawness and sensitiveness of soul such as when, to put it pathologically, a super-sensitive mucous membrane surface is touched roughly by a hand or instrument.
The Adventure of Living
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Yes; -- but the worst of it is, that when they suffer from this weakness, which you call sensitiveness, they think that they are made of finer material than other people.
The Prime Minister
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That pious deacon who had not "snickered" for above forty years, would have found his moral sensitiveness somewhat disturbed by the free, untrammelled way in which he spoke and acted.
The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 12, December, 1888
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The diligence, tolerance and persistence of cows and their sensitiveness to how we treat them demonstrates to us that we must respect life.
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Until instantaneous photography was introduced, a little more than twenty-five years ago (by the discovery of the means of increasing the sensitiveness of a photographic plate), and gradually became familiar to everyone in the exhibitions known as the "biograph" or
More Science From an Easy Chair
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Many an extra franc and taler and lira did this hypersensitiveness cost him.
The Way Home
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Their spectral sensitiveness is various and not congruent with the photopic eye response curve.
4. Measurements at Lighting Installations
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The sensitiveness of mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth.
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Sprachgefuhl (with an umlaut over the ‘u’) is a feeling for language, a sensitiveness to idiom.
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In the vegetable kingdom sensitiveness of an involuntary nature is discernible in the form of germination and growth while a still higher type of sensibility accompanied by a limited consciousness can be seen in the animal life.
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But many of their members have expressed discontent, and the society is showing signs of an increased sensitiveness to the issue.
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Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz paused in this place, to see whether the jury smiled at his joke; but as nobody took it but the greengrocer, whose sensitiveness on the subject was very probably occasioned by his having subjected a chaise – cart to the process in question on that identical morning, the learned Serjeant considered it advisable to undergo a slight relapse into the dismals before he concluded.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness
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The sensitiveness of diazotized primuline to light, when united to organic substances and the different colors which can be obtained with the unaltered compound, have given rise to an interesting printing method, the invention of Messrs.A. G.
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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The unfortunate Native, expressing no opinion, suffered dreadfully; not merely in his moral feelings, which were regularly fusilladed by the Major every hour in the day, and riddled through and through, but in his sensitiveness to bodily knocks and bumps, which was kept continually on the stretch.
Dombey and Son
