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Sensitize vs Resensitize - What's the difference?

sensitize | resensitize |

As verbs the difference between sensitize and resensitize

is that sensitize is to make increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way while resensitize is to sensitize again (especially following desensitization).

sensitize

English

Verb

  • To make increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.
  • Ever since the burglary, we've been more sensitized to home security issues.

    resensitize

    English

    Verb

    (resensitiz)
  • To sensitize again (especially following desensitization)