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==Definition==
*1. The [[quality]] of [[being]] '''sensitive''', in various senses of the adj.
::1803 W. TAYLOR in Ann. Rev. I. 401 An [[eloquent]] exuberance characterizes the style of our [[author]], and a sensitivity of [[imagination]] which makes even the minutest [[phenomenon|phænomenon]] appear important to his attention.
::1856 DOVE Logic Chr. Faith IV. ii. §5. 221 In the Vegetable World we behold the..germ of [[individual]] Sensitivity.
::1880 BASTIAN Brain 57 Its sensitivity to such stimuli is..closely akin to the general organic irritability of protoplasm. ::1882 Athenæum 25 Nov. 703/1 The number of grades between the weights that any person can distinguish has to be found by trial, and that number becomes the measure of the coarseness of his sensitivity.
::1904 TITCHENER tr. Wundt's Physiol. Psychol. I. 265 We find..symptoms of abrogation or diminution of cutaneous sensitivity upon the uninjured side of the [[body]].
*2. The [[activity]] and [[experience]] of the [[senses]].
*3. a. The [[degree]] to which a device, test, or procedure responds to small amounts of or slight [[change]]s in that to which it is designed to respond; the ratio of the response of a device to the stimulus causing it; = SENSITIVENESS 3.
:b. spec. in Radio, (a measure of) the ability of a receiver or other part of a radio system to pick up or respond to weak radio signals.
*4. Psychol. Used attrib., esp. in sensitivity [[group]], training, to denote training in small groups aimed at increasing a [[person]]'s awareness of the [[behaviour]], [[feelings]], and motives of others and of himself. Cf. T-group s.v. T 7.
::1954 Personnel XXX. 256/1 The suggested approach to leadership training combines these two features in order to focus sensitivity training on those interpersonal problems which intimately involve the members of the training group. ::1964 M. ARGYLE Psychol. & Social Probl. x. 133 Many students could..benefit from sensitivity training, aimed at increasing the accuracy of perception of social situations.
::1969 Listener 26 June 881/1 A sensitivity group of persons gets together in order to cultivate a heightened awareness of themselves and each other, in a sort of group therapy. 1971 Harvest Years Mar. 8/2 (caption) A few scenes from a sensitivity session.
::1977 E. G. & N. C. BORMANN Speech Communication (ed. 2) i. 12 Sensitivity groups have been used to train management personnel..and to institute individual and organizational change.
==Definition==
*1. The [[quality]] of [[being]] '''sensitive''', in various senses of the adj.
::1803 W. TAYLOR in Ann. Rev. I. 401 An [[eloquent]] exuberance characterizes the style of our [[author]], and a sensitivity of [[imagination]] which makes even the minutest [[phenomenon|phænomenon]] appear important to his attention.
::1856 DOVE Logic Chr. Faith IV. ii. §5. 221 In the Vegetable World we behold the..germ of [[individual]] Sensitivity.
::1880 BASTIAN Brain 57 Its sensitivity to such stimuli is..closely akin to the general organic irritability of protoplasm. ::1882 Athenæum 25 Nov. 703/1 The number of grades between the weights that any person can distinguish has to be found by trial, and that number becomes the measure of the coarseness of his sensitivity.
::1904 TITCHENER tr. Wundt's Physiol. Psychol. I. 265 We find..symptoms of abrogation or diminution of cutaneous sensitivity upon the uninjured side of the [[body]].
*2. The [[activity]] and [[experience]] of the [[senses]].
*3. a. The [[degree]] to which a device, test, or procedure responds to small amounts of or slight [[change]]s in that to which it is designed to respond; the ratio of the response of a device to the stimulus causing it; = SENSITIVENESS 3.
:b. spec. in Radio, (a measure of) the ability of a receiver or other part of a radio system to pick up or respond to weak radio signals.
*4. Psychol. Used attrib., esp. in sensitivity [[group]], training, to denote training in small groups aimed at increasing a [[person]]'s awareness of the [[behaviour]], [[feelings]], and motives of others and of himself. Cf. T-group s.v. T 7.
::1954 Personnel XXX. 256/1 The suggested approach to leadership training combines these two features in order to focus sensitivity training on those interpersonal problems which intimately involve the members of the training group. ::1964 M. ARGYLE Psychol. & Social Probl. x. 133 Many students could..benefit from sensitivity training, aimed at increasing the accuracy of perception of social situations.
::1969 Listener 26 June 881/1 A sensitivity group of persons gets together in order to cultivate a heightened awareness of themselves and each other, in a sort of group therapy. 1971 Harvest Years Mar. 8/2 (caption) A few scenes from a sensitivity session.
::1977 E. G. & N. C. BORMANN Speech Communication (ed. 2) i. 12 Sensitivity groups have been used to train management personnel..and to institute individual and organizational change.
