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hypersensitive

 adjective
     
hy‧per‧sen‧si‧tive
1 if someone is hypersensitive to a drug, substance etc, their body reacts very badly to it [= allergic]
hypersensitive to
I discovered I was hypersensitive to caffeine.
2 very easily offended or upset
hypersensitive to
She's hypersensitive to any form of criticism.
—hypersensitivity noun [uncountable]
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