sensitised

Rendered more aware

Sensitised is the British spelling of sensitized.

To be sensitised is to have been made sensitive or responsive to something.

A person sensitised to an issue has become aware of and attentive to it: The documentary sensitised viewers to the plight of refugees.

In medicine and photography, sensitised describes materials or tissues made reactive to specific substances or light.

conditioned

trained

Taught a skill

adapted · prepared · primed · programmed · exposed · inoculated · immunized · hardened · seasoned · inured

allergic

reactive

Tending to respond

susceptible · irritable · inflamed · tender · raw · vulnerable · prone · affected · triggered · anaphylactic

aware

conscious

Mentally present and alert

awakened · attuned · mindful · perceptive · alert · vigilant · knowledgeable · educated · understanding · recognizing

heightened

acute

Intensely severe or perceptive

heightened · enhanced · amplified · increased · elevated · sharpened · fine-tuned · refined · honed · perceptive

receptive

open

Not closed

responsive · empathetic · accepting · suggestible · persuadable · influenced · absorbent · pliable · sympathetic · softened

Opposites
responsiveness to stimuli

sensitiseddesensitised

Made unresponsive through exposure

desensitized · numbed · unsensitised · unsensitized · insensitive

awareness/consciousness

sensitisedunaware

Lacking knowledge of something

oblivious · ignorant · uninformed · insensible · indifferent

immunological/allergic state

sensitiseddesensitised

Made unresponsive through exposure

tolerant · non-reactive · immune · unaffected · resistant

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sensitise, sensitising, sensitises, sensitiser, sensitisation

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