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Sensitivity as a personality trait may have a number of aspects.

Interpersonal sensitivity[]

On the on hand it is linked to sensitivity to other people either in the sense of being empathic, a good listener etc. But it may be used in a more perjorative sense of being more than usually sensitive to criticism or slight.


Intrapersonal sensitivity[]

It is also used in the sense of being unusually aware of internal states as in the notion of neurasthenic personality

Highly sensitive person[]

A highly sensitive person processes sensory data exceptionally deeply and thoroughly due to a biological difference in his or her nervous system. This term was first coined by Dr. Elaine N. Aron, who subsequently wrote several books about the subject.

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