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Hypersensitive definition

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Responding excessively to the stimulus of a foreign agent, such as an allergen.
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Abnormally or excessively sensitive.
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Highly or excessively sensitive.
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Highly or abnormally sensitive to a stimulus, especially to some allergen.
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Highly or excessively sensitive.
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Hypersensitive Sentence Examples

  • Remember that autistic children may be hypersensitive to certain sensory stimuli.

  • Leaves can be skin irritant and or make skin hypersensitive to sunlight.

  • Some hypersensitive people have unique chemical reactions in the brain that cause them to respond much more strongly to stress.

  • People with AD may be hypersensitive to irritants because they have abnormally low levels of interferon-gamma in their systems.

  • However, as energetic as they are, there is still a tendency for them to be a bit hypersensitive, and a tad gossipy.

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