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What is the adjective for hypersensitivity?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs hypersensitise and hypersensitize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

hypersensitive
  1. Highly or abnormally sensitive to some substances or agents, especially to some allergen.
  2. Excessively sensitive; easily offended.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “He tends to become hypersensitive when faced with constructive criticism.”
      “At various times, Roosevelt had the Russian czar, the German kaiser, and the hypersensitive Japanese eating out of his hand, however reluctantly.”
      “In hypersensitive mutants the mutation synthetically enhances toxin lethality and can be functionally informative.”
hypersensitizing
hypersensitized
hypersensitised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hypersensitise
hypersensitising
  1. present participle of hypersensitise
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