sensitivity

sensibilidad

Capacidad de notar pequeños cambios, sentimientos o estímulos, o de reaccionar ante ellos.

En inglés sencillo: The ability to notice or respond to small changes, feelings, or things that affect you.

• Her skin sensitivity makes some soaps uncomfortable.
• He showed great sensitivity to her feelings.
• The device’s sensitivity allows it to detect tiny movements.

Cómo se usa: sensitivity to something (The medicine increased her sensitivity to sunlight.)

Sinónimos: sensitiveness, responsiveness

Antónimos: insensitivity

Expresiones frecuentes: sensitivity to light, show sensitivity, skin sensitivity

sensibilidad

Cuánto o a qué velocidad se mueve la vista o el personaje del juego al mover un dispositivo de control.

En inglés sencillo: How far or fast your game view or character moves when you move a control device.

• Try lowering the mouse sensitivity.
• High sensitivity lets me turn quickly in the game.
• She adjusted the controller sensitivity to improve her aim.

Expresiones frecuentes: mouse sensitivity, adjust sensitivity, high sensitivity

sensibilidad

Proporción de personas o casos que una prueba identifica correctamente entre quienes realmente presentan la condición buscada.

En inglés sencillo: How often a test correctly finds the condition in people or cases that actually have it.

• The test has high sensitivity.
• Researchers measured sensitivity using known positive cases.
• Increasing sensitivity may also produce more false positive results.

Sinónimos: true positive rate, recall

Expresiones frecuentes: test sensitivity, high sensitivity, sensitivity and specificity