A sensitive love of some sensitive objects.
Hammond.
5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive
motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation. E. Darwin.
Sensitive fern (Bot.), an American fern (Onoclea sensibilis), the
leaves of which, when plucked, show a slight tendency to fold together.
-- Sensitive flame (Physics), a gas flame so arranged that under a
suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly sensitive to sounds,
being caused to roar, flare, or become suddenly shortened or
extinguished, by slight sounds of the proper pitch. -- Sensitive joint
vetch (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb (Æschynomene hispida), with
sensitive foliage. -- Sensitive paper, paper prepared for photographic
purpose by being rendered sensitive to the effect of light. --
Sensitive plant. (Bot.) (a) A leguminous plant (Mimosa pudica, or M.
sensitiva, and other allied species), the leaves of which close at the
slightest touch. (b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the
sensitive brier (Schrankia) of the Southern States, two common American
species of Cassia (C. nictitans, and C. Chamæcrista), a kind of sorrel
(Oxalis sensitiva), etc.
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-- Sen"si*tive*ly (#), adv. -- Sen"si*tive*ness, n.
Sen`si*tiv"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being sensitive; --
used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized
silver.
Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the scientific
term for the capacity of feeling.
Hickok.
Sen"si*tize (?), v. t. (Photog.) To render sensitive, or susceptible of
being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized
paper or plate.
Sen"si*ti`zer (?), n. (Photog.) An agent that sensitizes.
The sensitizer should be poured on the middle of the sheet.
Wilis & Clements (The Platinotype).
Sen"si*to*ry (?), n. See Sensory.
Sens"ive (?), a. Having sense or sensibility; sensitive. [Obs.] Sir P.
Sidney.
Sen"sor (?), a. Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.
Sen*so"ri*al (?), a. [Cf. F. sensorial. See Sensorium.] Of or
pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.
A. Tucker.
Sen*so"ri*um (?), n.; pl. E. Sensoriums (#), L. Sensoria (#). [L., fr.
sentire, sensum, to discern or perceive by the senses.] (Physiol.) The
seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions
from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived;
the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed
into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the
organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it
is susceptible of common or special sensations.
Sen*so`ri-vo*li"tion*al (?), a. (Physiol.) Concerned both in sensation
and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from
the cerebro- spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation
and volition. Dunglison.
Sen"so*ry (?), n.; pl. Sensories (&?;). (Physiol.) Same as Sensorium.
Sen"so*ry, a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or
sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves
and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in
sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to
indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve
center.
Sen"su*al (?), a. [L. sensualis, from sensus sense: cf. F. sensuel.] 1.
Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs
of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction
from the spirit.
Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies.
Bacon.
Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental
powers ascends.
Pope.
2. Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining
to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the
indulgence of appetites; wordly.
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the
Spirit.
Jude 19.
The greatest part of men are such as prefer . . . that good which
is sensual before whatsoever is most divine.
Hooker.
3. Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious;
voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.
No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that wherein
sensual men place their felicity.
Atterbury.