Of, pertaining to, or affecting the senses; depending on the senses.
Having sense, sensibility, or feeling; capable of receiving impressions from external objects: often extended, figuratively, to various inanimate objects.
Of keen sensibility; keenly susceptible of external influences or impressions; easily and acutely affected or moved by outward circumstances or impressions: as, a sensitive person, or a person of sensitive nature: figuratively extended to inanimate objects.
Specifically
In entomology, noting parts of the surface of the antennæ: which are peculiarly modified and, it is supposed, subservient to some special sense. These surfaces exhibit an immense number of microscopical pores, covered with a very delicate transparent membrane; they may be generally diffused over the joints or variously arranged in patches, the position of which has been used in the classification of certain families of Coleoptera.
Susceptible in a notable degree to hypnotism; easily hypnotized or mesmerized.
Noting a condition of feverish liability to fluctuation: said of markets, securities, or commodities.
So delicately adjusted as to respond quickly to very slight changes of condition: said of instruments, as a balance.
In chem. and photography, readily affected by the action of appropriate agents: as, iodized paper is sensitive to the action of light.
Sensible; wise; judicious.
Synonyms and Sentient, etc. See sensible.
noun.
Something that feels; a sensorium.
noun.
A sensitive person; specifically, one who is sensitive to mesmeric or hypnotic influences or experiments. See I., 3 .
noun.
the common sense in the Aristotelian use.