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sensitive +‎ -ity


sensitivity (countable and uncountable, plural sensitivities)

  1. The quality of being sensitive.
  2. The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.
  3. (statistics) The proportion of individuals in a population that will be correctly identified in a binary classification test.
  4. (electronics) The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.
  5. (photography) The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength.

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