hypersensitive
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Psychologist Justin Barrett of the Fuller Graduate School of Psychology gave a name to the root of this tendency: Humans, he said, have a Hypersensitive Agency Detection Device.
From Slate • Jul. 23, 2015
Hypersensitive about venturing into the unreal daily world, she finally would not address her many letters, had her sister do it for her, or else pasted printed addresses on the envelopes.
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Hypersensitive to personal danger, Gouzenko thereafter never appeared in public without disguising himself or covering his head with a bag.
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Hypersensitive Painter Wood scarcely bothered to refute the rumors.
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Hypersensitive from her convent upbringing she knew intuitively when he entered a room or left it.
From The Shadow of the East by Hull, E. M. (Edith Maude)