hypersensitized

Questions about hypersensitized

What does hypersensitized mean?

hypersensitized means "having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)".

How many syllables are in hypersensitized?

hypersensitized has 5 syllables and divides as hyper-sen-si-ti-zed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hypersensitized?

Close synonyms include allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitised, sensitized, sensitised. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hypersensitized a common word?

hypersensitized is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.