sensitive vs sympathetic

sensitive

adj
  • Easily offended, upset, or hurt. 

  • Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses. 

  • Responsive to stimuli. 

  • Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy. 

  • Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting. 

  • Accurate; able to register small changes in some property. 

  • Meant to be concealed or kept secret. 

noun
  • A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive. 

sympathetic

adj
  • Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy. 

  • A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence. 

  • Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way. 

  • Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration. 

  • Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action. 

  • Relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves arising from ganglia near the middle part of the spinal cord, supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves. 

  • Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association. 

  • Attracting the liking of others. 

How often have the words sensitive and sympathetic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )