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Sensitive vs Shaping - What's the difference?

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Sensitive is a related term of shaping.


As nouns the difference between sensitive and shaping

is that sensitive is one with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive while shaping is the action of the verb to shape .

As an adjective sensitive

is having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.

As a verb shaping is

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sensitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
  • *, III.1.2.i:
  • The sensitive faculty most part overrules reason, the soul is carried hoodwinked, and the understanding captive like a beast.
  • Responsive to stimuli.
  • Of a person, easily offended, upset or hurt.
  • Max is very sensitive ; he cried today because of the bad news.
  • Of an issue, capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
  • Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.
  • Accurate (instrument).
  • Derived terms

    * sensitively * sensitiveness * sensitivity

    Synonyms

    * tender * nesh * precise * compassionate * caring * aware

    Antonyms

    * insensitive * stoic * uncaring * resistant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One 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.
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    shaping

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to shape .
  • * 1996 , Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
  • In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.
  • (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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