Definition of Supersensitive

1. Adjective. Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor). "Hypersensitive to pollen"


Definition of Supersensitive

1. a. Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive.

Definition of Supersensitive

1. Adjective. Extremely sensitive. ¹

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Definition of Supersensitive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Supersensitive

supersedures
superseed
superselected
superselection
superselections
supersell
superseller
supersellers
superselling
supersells
supersemination
supersenior
supersensible
supersensibly
supersensitised
supersensitive
supersensitivity
supersensitized
supersensory
supersensual
supersensuous
superseparability
superseparable
superseries
superserious
superserviceable
supersession
supersessionism
supersessionist
supersessionists

Literary usage of Supersensitive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Homoeopathy: Its Tenets and Tendencies, Theoretical, Theological, and by James Young Simpson (1853)
"... and then to extinguish, a spasmodic fit of asthma,—because the diseased parts of the organization producing the paroxysm were so supersensitive as to be ..."

2. Portfolio of Dermochromes by Jerome Kingsbury, William Gaynor States, Eduard Jacobi (1913)
"A subject supersensitive to one drug may very likely be supersensitive to others. No doubt there is a general predisposition to drug eruptions based on ..."

3. Microbes & Toxins by Étienne Burnet, Charles Broquet, William Macdonald Scott (1912)
"The symptoms resemble serum-sickness in man ; there is an incubation period of twelve days at least after the first injection. The supersensitive condition ..."

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