Sensitive vs Shaping - What's the difference?
sensitive | shaping | Related terms |
Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
*, III.1.2.i:
Responsive to stimuli.
Of a person, easily offended, upset or hurt.
Of an issue, capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
Accurate (instrument).
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
The action of the verb to shape .
* 1996 , Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
(psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.
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
.sensitive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The sensitive faculty most part overrules reason, the soul is carried hoodwinked, and the understanding captive like a beast.
- Max is very sensitive ; he cried today because of the bad news.
- Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.
Derived terms
* sensitively * sensitiveness * sensitivitySynonyms
* tender * nesh * precise * compassionate * caring * awareAntonyms
* insensitive * stoic * uncaring * resistantNoun
(en noun)- Swedenborg was one of the leading savants of Europe; it would be absurd to place any of our sensitives on the same intellectual level.
shaping
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.