What is another word for highly sensitive?

Pronunciation: [hˈa͡ɪli sˈɛnsɪtˌɪv] (IPA)

Highly sensitive is a term that refers to people who have an intense reaction to stimuli in their environment. Some alternative words for highly sensitive include hyper-reactive, oversensitive, and easily affected. Other synonyms include empathetic, intuitive, and true feelers. Some people may use the term highly empathetic to describe those who are emotionally sensitive. Suggestible, tender, and responsive are other words used to describe those who are highly sensitive. When discussing sensitivity to light, sound, touch, or other sensory input, terms like sensory processing sensitivity or hypersensitivity may be used. Whatever the term used, it is important to recognize that sensitivity is a trait that can be both a strength and a challenge for individuals.

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Famous quotes with Highly sensitive

  • When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.
    Kenneth Starr
  • One of the reasons I enjoy going to the Opera is the spectacle of an audience enraptured. Their emotions are engaged, their passions brought to the fore, they become highly sensitive.
    Derren Brown
  • My young friend who was taught that she was so sinful the only way an angry God could be persuaded to forgive her was by Jesus dying for her, was also taught that part of the joy of the blessed in heaven is watching the torture of the damned in hell. A strange idea of joy. But it is a belief limited not only to the more rigid sects. I know a number of highly sensitive and intelligent people in my own communion who consider as a heresy my faith that God's loving concern for his creation will outlast all our willfulness and pride. No matter how many eons it takes, he will not rest until all of creation, including Satan, is reconciled to him, until there is no creature who cannot return his look of love with a joyful response of love... Origen held this belief and was ultimately pronounced a heretic. Gregory of Nyssa, affirming the same loving God, was made a saint. Some people feel it to be heresy because it appears to deny man his freedom to refuse to love God. But this, it seems to me, denies God his freedom to go on loving us beyond all our willfulness and pride. If the Word of God is the light of the world, and this light cannot be put out, ultimately it will brighten all the dark corners of our hearts and we will be able to see, and seeing, will be given the grace to respond with love — and of our own free will.
    Madeleine L'Engle

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