Where does “sensitive” come from?
Sensitive comes from Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus, from Latin sentio meaning to perceive or feel, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European sent- and h₁es-.
sensitive (English): Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to...
Definitions
- Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to...
Ancestry of “sensitive”, step by step
Words derived from “sensitive”
- sensitivity
- insensitive
- sensitiveness
- hypersensitivity
- sensitization
- insensitivity
- desensitization
- sensitively
- hypersensitive
- sensitize
- photosensitive
- photosensitivity
- sensitizer
- oversensitive
- supersensitive
- desensitize
- radiosensitivity
- radiosensitive
- desensitizing
- ultrasensitive
- mechanosensitive
- photosensitizer
- chemosensitivity
- supersensitivity