different between impatience vs sensitive

English

Etymology

From Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. Synchronically analyzable as im- +? patience.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pe???ns/
• Hyphenation: im?pa?tience

Noun

impatience (countable and uncountable, plural impatiences)

1. The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.

Antonyms

• patience
• haste

Related terms

• impassivity

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pa.sj??s/

Noun

impatience f (plural impatiences)

1. impatience

English

Alternative forms

• sensative (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) enPR: s?n's?t?v, IPA^(key): /?s?ns?t?v/

Adjective

sensitive (comparative more sensitive, superlative most sensitive)

1. Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
2. Responsive to stimuli.
3. (of a person) Easily offended, upset or hurt.

4. (of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.

5. Meant to be concealed or kept secret.

6. (of an instrument) Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
7. (archaic) Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.

Synonyms

• tender
• nesh
• precise
• compassionate
• caring
• classified
• aware

Antonyms

• insensitive
• nonsensitive
• resistant
• stoic
• uncaring

Hyponyms

• hypersensitive
• light-sensitive

Derived terms

Related terms

• sense

Translations

Noun

sensitive (plural sensitives)

1. A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.
   • 2003, Frederic W.H. Myers, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death Part 2

     Swedenborg was one of the leading savants of Europe; it would be absurd to place any of our sensitives on the same intellectual level.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.si.tiv/

Adjective

sensitive

1. feminine singular of sensitif

Noun

sensitive f (plural sensitives)

1. sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica)

Further reading

• “sensitive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• investies

Italian

Adjective

sensitive

1. feminine plural of sensitivo

Anagrams

• estensivi, intessevi

Latin

Adjective

s?nsit?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of s?nsit?vus

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

sensitive

1. definite singular of sensitiv
2. plural of sensitiv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

sensitive

1. definite singular of sensitiv
2. plural of sensitiv