faculty mental faculty module | one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind |
sense sensation sentience sentiency sensory faculty | the faculty through which the external world is apprehended, in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing |
staff faculty | the body of teachers and administrators at a school, the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university |
academician academic faculty member | an educator who works at a college or university |
medium spiritualist sensitive | someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead, he consulted several mediums |
sensitive plant Mimosa sensitiva | semilimbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch |
sensitive plant touch-me-not shame plant live-and-die humble plant action plant Mimosa pudica | prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia, heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled |
partridge pea sensitive pea wild sensitive plant Chamaecrista fasciculata Cassia fasciculata | tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch, sometimes placed in genus Cassia |
sensitive fern bead fern Onoclea sensibilis | beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe, pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched, pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes |
sensitive | of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security |
sensitive sore raw tender | hurting, the tender spot on his jaw |
sensible sensitive | able to feel or perceive, even amoeba are sensible creatures, the more sensible parts of the skin |
sensitive | responsive to physical stimuli, a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch, a sensitive voltmeter, sensitive skin, sensitive to light |
highly sensitive | readily affected by various agents, a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock, a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated |
light-sensitive photosensitive | sensitive to visible light, photographic film is light-sensitive |
sensitive | being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others, sensitive to the local community and its needs |