sensitive

1. adj. responsive to stimuli, changes in the environment, feelings, or other phenomena; that is, having sensitivity.

2. adj. having well-developed or intense affective sensibility.

3. n. in spiritualism and parapsychology, a person who is supposedly capable of receiving knowledge by paranormal means, as in clairvoyance and telepathy, or of perceiving auras and similar alleged phenomena beyond the range of normal perception. See also medium; psychic.

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Psychology term of the day

January 19th 2025

homoplasy

n. a similarity of form in bodily structures of species that are not descended from a common ancestor (e.g., the body forms of a tuna and a dolphin). This superficial resemblance often arises through the process of convergent evolution because the species live in the same environment. Compare homology. See also analogy. —homoplastic adj.