sensitization
sensitization · sensitizations
Sensitivierung
The process of making something sensitiveThe process of making something sensitive.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)The process of making something sensitive.
Sensitivierung
(psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations)
Translations
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By meaning 1
process of making something sensitive:
Forms
plural: sensitizationsSynonyms
3 synonymsClose in meaning
- (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations):sensitisation
- the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen):sensitisation
- rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections:sensitizingsensitisingsensitisation
Word family
20 related wordsDerivedallosensitizationautosensitizationchemosensitizationcosensitizationcross-sensitizationdesensitizationdesensitisationelectrosensitizationhypersensitizationhyposensitizationimmunosensitizationmonosensitizationmultisensitizationphotosensitizationpolysensitizationpresensitizationradiosensitizationresensitization
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable