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ssessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.

Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.

Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive. -- Su`per*sen"si*tive*ness, n.

The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness…

Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive. Tremblingly alive to nature's laws. Falconer.

Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence. Dr. H. More.

The sensitiveness exhibited by small free-swimming organisms, as bacteria, zoöspores of algæ, etc., to chemical substances held in solution. They may be attracted (positive chemotaxis) or repelled (negative chemotaxis). -- Chem`o*tac"tic (#), a. -- Chem`o*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.

Not sensitive; not acute. Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose. Shak.

ion; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton. Sensitive to the most trifling collisions. W. Irving.

by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. Collodion process (Photog.), a process in which a film of sensitized collodion is used in preparing the plate for taking a picture. -- Styptic collodion, collodion containing an astringent, as tanni…

Accountable; responsible; sensitive. [Obs.] I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage. Shak.

Sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.

The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.

Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music.

The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.

To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.