supersensitive

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)

From super- + sensitive. Doublet of hypersensitive.

So supersensitive were her drugged senses, that the light touch was like a dislocating impact, jolting her rudely into full wakefulness. — Red Nails, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard
All this was taken very much for granted, as a rule, but now and then some supersensitive person made violent objections to it, as a theory of life. — Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
She could, in some supersensitive way, of which he had not the secret, feel the pulse of his thoughts; she knew by instinct what he hoped and feared and wished. — The Forsyte Saga - Complete, John Galsworthy

allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, hypersensitised, sensitized, sensitised, supersensitized, supersensitised

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