sensitizing
- adjective
- /ˈsɛn.sɪ.taɪ.zɪŋ/
- US
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sensibilizante
- Exercises that focus on mindfulness can be sensitizing, making people more aware of their thoughts and emotions.
And people on the West Coast are much more sensitized to the wow of nature.
- And people on the West Coast are much more sensitized to the wow of nature.
Examples
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These parents tend to be highly sensitizing and moderately inductive in their child-rearing, restrictive in their mediation practices, and concerned with the behavioral and affective effects of electronic media on their underachieving gifted children.
Academic text (2007) -
Parents were presented with nine possible responses to each situation, representative of inductive and sensitizing strategies, and asked to rate each response based on whether it represented what their actual response would be.
Academic text (1991) -
Regardless of the general tendency among parents to be highly divergent in the nature of their exchanges with their exceptional children, findings from this investigation suggest that any parent regularly engaging in more inductive and less sensitizing modes of communication can indirectly impact what their child observes when watching television.
Academic text (1991) -
Emergent indigenous and sensitizing themes were then contrasted through a process that unitized and categorized thematic constructions (Rodwell, 1998).
Academic text (2007) -
The sensitizing effects of early childhood experiences can shape an individual's emotional responses later in life.
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She found that participating in art therapy had a sensitizing impact on her feelings, helping her express herself more freely.
Synonyms
A person becomes more easily upset by certain events or sounds
Antonyms
How Sensitizing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sensitizing comes from the old root sens meaning 'to feel', the same root you see in sense and sensitive. So something described as sensitizing makes a person or thing more able to feel or react, either physically or emotionally.
