supersensitive
adjective
su·per·sen·si·tive
ˌsü-pər-ˈsen(t)-sə-tiv 
: extremely sensitive
supersensitive detectors
supersensitive to criticism
The medicine made her skin supersensitive.
… casually downloaded reams of supersensitive U.S. nuclear-weapons data …—
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supersensitivity
noun
plural supersensitivities
supersensitivity to light
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Your eyes become supersensitive to sunlight: Some people with nr-axSpA will also have a condition called uveitis.
—Alice Oglethorpe, SELF, 18 July 2025
Across the world, dozens of supersensitive detectors have been installed since the beginning of the Cold War era to detect infrasound waves created by nuclear tests thousands of miles away.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 12 May 2025
The problem is that investors are supersensitive to the Fed’s views.
—James MacKintosh, WSJ, 22 June 2021
Better to stick with your Swedish clogs and Ulla Johnson dresses, and your membership at the food co-op, than to risk the wrath of hungry, countryside-roaming alien beasties with terrible eyesight but supersensitive hearing.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 May 2021
Exterminators today are taking a cue from law enforcement and turning to dogs' supersensitive noses for smelling bed bugs, ants, and termites.
—Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
Now, researchers are pushing to build a final generation of supersensitive detectors — or one ‘ultimate’ detector — that will leave the particles no place to hide.
—Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
That’s even true for the supersensitive Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), 66 radio telescopes high in the Chilean Andes that work together as a single instrument.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2020
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Alice Oglethorpe, SELF, 18 July 2025
Across the world, dozens of supersensitive detectors have been installed since the beginning of the Cold War era to detect infrasound waves created by nuclear tests thousands of miles away.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 12 May 2025
The problem is that investors are supersensitive to the Fed’s views.
—James MacKintosh, WSJ, 22 June 2021
Better to stick with your Swedish clogs and Ulla Johnson dresses, and your membership at the food co-op, than to risk the wrath of hungry, countryside-roaming alien beasties with terrible eyesight but supersensitive hearing.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 May 2021
Exterminators today are taking a cue from law enforcement and turning to dogs' supersensitive noses for smelling bed bugs, ants, and termites.
—Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
Now, researchers are pushing to build a final generation of supersensitive detectors — or one ‘ultimate’ detector — that will leave the particles no place to hide.
—Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
That’s even true for the supersensitive Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), 66 radio telescopes high in the Chilean Andes that work together as a single instrument.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2020
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supersensitive
adjective
su·per·sen·si·tive
-ˈsen(t)-sət-iv, -ˈsen(t)-stiv
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