sensitiveness

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Parts II and III contain specific suggestions for rearing individualistic children possessed of the four qualities set forth as desirable in Part I�Vitality, Courage, Sensitiveness and Intelligence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sensitiveness is a faculty pertaining to the spiritual nature, and is acute in proportion as that spiritual nature dominates the physical senses.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

Sensitiveness of Cotyledons to contact.—This subject does not possess much interest, as it is not known that sensitiveness of this kind is of any service to seedling plants.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

Cucurbita ovifera: Sensitiveness of the apex of the Radicle.—The tips proved ill-fitted for the attachment of cards, as they are extremely fine and flexible.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

Sensitiveness exists in the Japanese to an extent never supposed by the foreigners who treat them harshly at the open ports....

From Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists by Ashmun, Margaret