Any agent that sensitizes something.

simple past tense and past participle of sensitize

plural of sensitizer

present participle of sensitize

plural of sensitivity

The quality or state of being sensitive; sensitiveness. / The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.

The process of making something sensitive.

To make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli. / To make (someone) increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.

(computing, philosophy) Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.

(computer science) Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of letters based on case. For example, a case-sensitive password will not recognize "Password" and "password" as the same, but a case insensitive comparison would.