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What does oversensitive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having excessive sensitivity; reacting to stimuli too readily; thin-skinned.
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I don't think I'm oversensitive to interpret your comments as saying my work is devoid of substantive content.
Being an oversensitive person, my expectations from each of my relationships with family, friends and relatives were really high.
The software does seem a touch oversensitive to certain key words but I've never had a problem with blogs, even the more foul-mouthed ones.
But parents have always been oversensitive to what their children read and watch.
Jane was rather oversensitive, and harped on about the glass of champagne for rather a long time.
I was always told when I was a child, you're too sensitive, you're oversensitive.

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