Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the scientific term for the capacity of feeling.
This conflict between feminine sensitivity and a gaminerie eager for enjoyment wages incessant warfare throughout his life.
Sensitivity is not only the child of emotion but at the same time the sum and substance of all feelings.
It was his suspiciousness against adults, as far as I recall, his exquisite sensitivity in dealing with others, their opinions on his behalf.
And the sensitivity test to determine what drug we have that will affect that particular bacteria that is causing this.
And when he asked her what he had done to cause it she snapped angrily, "You big pig, you haven't the sensitivity to understand.
Those of us who have any true sensitivity unblunted by the psycho-mechanistics of the era all share this distrust.
There is little fault to be found with this teaching from a scientific standpoint,--since we know that higher evolution must involve an increase of sensitivity to pain.
If this is the source of Collado's example, he is clearly demonstrating his sensitivity to the nasalization of such items such as nagǒ.
His sensitivity to this point is demonstrated by his carefully transforming those examples presented by Rodriguez in the written language in the Arte into correct colloquial expressions in his own grammar.
Mind simply represents a special development of the quality of sensitivity common to organic nature, and analogous to the sensitivity of the photographic plate.
The reason for the power of social approvals and disapprovals over individuals lies partly in the fact, already noted, of the human being's extremely high sensitivityto the praise and blame of others.
This extreme sensitivity to the praise and blame of his fellows operates powerfully to qualify men's other instincts.
In some men sensitivity to the imaginative possibilities of the materials of Nature is so high, that they can find satisfactory activity nowhere else than in one or another of the fine arts.
To those gifted with sensitivity in neither of these directions, pictures may be through all their lives a bore, and a piano a positive nuisance.
The maternal instinct is held by some writers, for instance, to be in large measure the basis of altruism, and is closely associated with sensitivity to the needs and desires of others.
The samesensitivity to the innuendoes and colors of life that enable some of such men to give an exquisite and various portraiture of experience, incapacitates them for action.
His vision was at high sensitivity now, her face showed white against the wet rock with gray highlights along its strong cheekbones beneath the wide frightened eyes.
The man had had to lower his visual sensitivity as they approached the light.
He tried listening with maximum sensitivity but there were only remote confused murmurs.
Your nerve sensitivity is greater than ours--we had not realized it would kill you to be thus interrogated.
Whoever was doing it apparently did not intend it to be torture, for when Manning died the other two received a curiously surprised yet apologetic thought, "Your nerve sensitivity is greater than ours.
Yes, what you say is true," Hanlon seemed more relieved now.
My Administration was able to launch a long sought after psychological readjustment and outreach program, unprecedented in its popularity, sensitivity and success.
But these are only the other side of our growing sensitivity to the persistence of want in the midst of plenty, of our impatience with the slowness with which age-old ills are being overcome.
Both approaches aim to achieve two things: to bring about deep, progressive muscular relaxation and to increase your sensitivity to the presence of tension in your body when it exists.
Doing this requires the therapist to have a heightened sensitivity to others, feel a fundamental measure of respect for them, and ideally be able to adjust to their very individual needs and concerns.
Physical symptoms include a sense of heaviness and lethargy, dry skin, sensitivity to cold, constipation, and thinning hair.
It may be an experience of mild euphoria, or you may feel it as a marked increase in aestheticsensitivity or as a sense of growing inner serenity.
Transactional analysis has perhaps done more than any of the other main approaches to therapy to increase the sensitivity of the public to the psychological dimensions of human relationships.
Sensitivity to Values Are personal values very important to you?
In an art form that transmits yugen, none of this is stated; one is forced to feel these truths through suggestion, the degree of feeling depending, of course, upon the sensitivity of the individual.
Finally, the aristocratic civilization of the Heian era developed Japanese sensitivity to remarkable levels, providing later generations with a valuable framework of taste and standards.
It is still the sensitivity--that realm of sensitivity which is ordinarily covered by unconsciousness.
Scientific theories and philosophic conceptions or general truths require a different soil,--require an intelligence which has risen out of the inarticulate mass of mere sensitivity to free consciousness.
The total sensitivity has its self here in a separate subjectivity, which, in the case cited of this sentient life in the ordinary course of nature, is visibly present as another and a different individual.
The sensitivity is thus a soul in which the whole mental life is condensed.
This is not astonishing after all, when we recall that the periphery of the retina possesses a relatively high sensitivity for movement impressions, although its chromatic sensitivity is very low.
With regard to the sensitivity of the machine, micrometric determination showed that when the subject was properly installed, movements through so small a distance as 1/10 millimeter could be accurately ascertained.
Who could judge adequately how much sensitivity was in the hearts of all these men whose hopes were placed only in You?
Yet in spite of the tens of thousands of sensations, and in spite of the extraordinary sensitivity of the cells, we often read that in man the sense of smell is degenerating!
This annual pattern is often, perhaps usually, obscured because of the extreme sensitivity of voles to a variety of changes in their environment.
Alves was less educated--his whole life covers but a span of twenty-four years--but what he lacked in learning he made up in sensitivity and imagination.
About Resistance, Turns of Wire andSensitivity of Headphones.
Don't forget that strong static and strong signals sometimes destroy thesensitivity of crystals.
Don't fail to adjust the B battery after putting in a fresh vacuum tube, as its sensitivity depends largely on the voltage.
The progress of science authorizes the expectation that the close relation of sensitivity to simple reaction will one day be discovered.
The sensitivity of the poet to pain as well as his sensitivity to pleasure is a source of often very keen gratification and pride to him.
If the difference in color were not real but due to change in color sensitivity of the eye with different intensities of such relatively weak light (Purkinje phenomenon), the weaker light should appear more blue.
The sensitivity of our eye is largely responsible for the detection of so small an energy change.
He showed how to increase their sensitivity by partial cancellation of the earth's magnetism at the location of the compass needle.
It is not easy to acquire this degree of sensitivity to your body unless you remove all food for a sufficiently long period; this allows the body to get a word in edgewise that we are willing and able to listen to.
Individual sensitivity to this type of overeating is dependent upon genetics and personality and who is generating the negative emotions.
It is a function of two unknown variables--the incarnate spirit's sensitivity and the discarnate spirit's capacity of self-manifestation.
Yet I believe that we have still persistent in our brain-structure some dim vestige of the transition from that early undifferentiated continuous sensitivity to our existing specialisation of sense.
