How to say "sensitivity" in Japanese

• 感度かんどJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounThe technical sense: how sensitive a measuring instrument or similar device is, and how well a radio or TV receives. It is not the word for emotional or artistic sensitivity.
• 感性かんせいCommon
  nounSensitivity as a personal quality of perception and taste: an artist's or designer's feel for beauty, style and nuance. Choose this for aesthetic or creative sensibility.
  少女しょうじょの鋭するどい感性かんせいに触ふれている。↗

  I am touched by the girl's acute sensitivity.
• 感受性かんじゅせいCommon
  nounSensitivity as receptivity: the capacity to take in impressions and be moved or affected by experience, art or other people; an impressionable, susceptible quality. Also covers susceptibility to outside influences.
• 情感じょうかんCommon
  nounThough it can be glossed 'sensitivity', its core meaning is feeling or emotion, especially the feeling conveyed by music, words or expression; for sensitivity as a personal trait it is seldom the word you want.
• 感応かんのうCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbIts basic sense is responsiveness: responding or reacting to something, or a sympathetic response between people or things. As a translation of 'sensitivity' it is marginal — rarely the word you want for ordinary senses.

Choose 感度 for the sensitivity of instruments and devices, 感性 for aesthetic or creative sensibility, 感受性 for emotional receptivity; 情感 mainly means feeling or emotion and 感応 responsiveness, so both are marginal for 'sensitivity'.

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• 感度かんどsensitivity (e.g. of a measuring instrument)
• 感性かんせいsensitivity
• 感受性かんじゅせいsensitivity
• 情感じょうかんfeeling
• 感応かんのうresponsiveness
• デリカシーdelicacy
• 鋭感えいかんsensitiveness
• 自己移入じこいにゅうempathy
• 感応性かんのうせいresponsiveness
• 神経しんけいnerves