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Recent Examples of hypersensitive
Some people are hypersensitive, or sensory avoiders, and may be overwhelmed by sounds, bright lights, busy spaces and need calmer, more structured spaces.
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Nancy Doyle, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Later, many grew hypersensitive to their environments, triggered by foods, fragrances, exhaust, and cleaning agents that hadn’t bothered them before.
—Kate Raphael, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2025
There’s something about his ability to be both hypersensitive and judgmental, ambitious and full of self-doubt, dark and laugh-out-loud funny that has influenced my writing and thinking.
—Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 20 June 2025
Lee was an editor, writer, ringleader and often the initial spark for a new character: What about a blind lawyer who fights crime using his other hypersensitive senses and was kind of a daredevil?
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
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Nancy Doyle, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Later, many grew hypersensitive to their environments, triggered by foods, fragrances, exhaust, and cleaning agents that hadn’t bothered them before.
—Kate Raphael, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2025
There’s something about his ability to be both hypersensitive and judgmental, ambitious and full of self-doubt, dark and laugh-out-loud funny that has influenced my writing and thinking.
—Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 20 June 2025
Lee was an editor, writer, ringleader and often the initial spark for a new character: What about a blind lawyer who fights crime using his other hypersensitive senses and was kind of a daredevil?
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypersensitive
Adjective
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Most commenters on the TSR post agreed that Yung Miami meant no disrespect and that Lizzo was being a little oversensitive.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2025
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The 8th and 9th are full of good energy, but everyone seems to be feeling oversensitive near the 13th.—
Katharine Merlin,
Town & Country,
1 Sep. 2023
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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Bella, now three and a half years old, was described by Overbye as calm, sensitive, quiet, smart, and playful.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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Prevent this by grounding AI in your documents and adding human review for sensitive content.—
Louis Mosca,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Hypersensitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypersensitive. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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