oversensitiveness
Example Sentences
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The oversensitiveness to pain persists for months, and is a constant temptation.
From Doctor and Patient by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
She knew, too, that she had herself to blame in part; her oversensitiveness, her quick temper, her want of deep insight had all had their share in making that evening such a blank failure.
From We Two, a novel by Edna Lyall
It has been found that gastric indigestion produces oversensitiveness, fretfulness, and irritability, while chronic constipation results in erratic conduct, stupidity, languor, headache, and moodiness.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various
Some of the most common of these sick reactions with which the nurse must deal are enhanced suggestibility, repression, oversensitiveness, stubbornness, fear, de pression, and irritability.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter
Perhaps it was through oversensitiveness that Brigit and I dwelt suspiciously upon Bedr's motives, and asked each other who it was he had expected at the House of the Crocodile.
From It Happened in Egypt by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
