oversensitive in English

adjective
1
(especially of a person or an instrument) excessively sensitive.
Bentley was oversensitive to criticism

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1. Do not be oversensitive to negative remarks.

2. Without them, the immune system becomes unbalanced and oversensitive.

3. Maintaining a proper spirit can help us to avoid being oversensitive about position.

4. Sensory Avoiding: What it is and how it looks Most sensory avoiders are oversensitive (this may be referred to as “hypersensitivity”)

5. (archaic) Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 5: He was seasoned wood, and took the world pretty wisely; not reckless of Castigation, as some boys become, nor oversensitive as to dehonour, as his friend and comrade beside him was.· severe criticism.· (obsolete) Emendation; correction.