SENSITIVE Copy link • SENSITIVEQuick of sensation, *facile sentiens (☞ not sensibilis in this sense). The eye is a very sensitive organ, oculi facile laeduntur. Alive to emotion, mollis; qui or cujus animus facile movetur. The sensitive plant, *mimosa sensitiva (Linn.). Irritable, mollis ad accipiendam otfensionem (e.g., animus, Cic. Att., 1, 17, 2): irritabilis (excitable): iracundus: facile excandescens: iram in promtu gerens (irritable; the latter, Plaut., Pseud., 1, 5, 33). To be (over) sensitive, animo esse molliore; in aliquo est animus mollis