Antonyms of noun sensitivity

1 of 5 senses of sensitivity

Sense 5
sensitivity, sensitiveness -- (the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment)
       Antonym of insensitivity (Sense 1)
      => insensitivity, insensitiveness -- (the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sensitivity

5 senses of sensitivity

Sense 1
sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility -- ((physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain")
       => sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty -- (the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing")

Sense 2
sensitivity, sensitiveness -- (the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"; "the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth")
       => physical property -- (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)

Sense 3
sensitivity, sensitiveness -- (sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others))
       => feeling -- (the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual")

Sense 4
sensitivity, predisposition -- (susceptibility to a pathogen)
       => susceptibility, susceptibleness -- (the state of being susceptible; easily affected)

Sense 5
sensitivity, sensitiveness -- (the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment)
       => ability -- (the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment)

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