oversensitive

THESAURUS

oversensitive

allergic, anaphylactic, delicate, empathetic, empathic, goosy, hairsplitting, high-strung, hypercritical, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, irritable, itchy, miffy, morbidly sensitive, nervous, overconscientious, overcritical, overfastidious, overmeticulous, overnice, overparticular, overprecise, overrefined, overscrupulous, oversensible, oversqueamish, overtender, passible, prickly, refined, responsive, sensitive, skittish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, ultracritical

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oversensitive

Sensibility

N sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness, moral sensibility, impressibility, affectibility, susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity, mobility, vivacity, vivaciousness, tenderness, softness, sentimental, sentimentality, sentimentalism, excitability, fastidiousness, physical sensibility, sore point, sore place, where the shoe pinches, sensible, sensitive, impressible, impressionable, susceptive, susceptible, alive to, impassionable, gushing, warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, sentimental, romantic, enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive, excitable, oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned, fastidious, sensibly, to the quick, to the inmost core, mens aequa in arduis, pour salt in the wound.

Overestimation

N overestimation, exaggeration, vanity, optimism, pessimism, pessimist, much cry and little wool, much ado about nothing, storm in a teacup, tempest in a teacup, fine talking, overestimated, oversensitive, all his geese are swans, parturiunt montes.