sensitive vs tense

sensitive

adj
  • Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting. 

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

  • Responsive to stimuli. 

  • Easily offended, upset, or hurt. 

  • Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy. 

  • 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. 

tense

adj
  • Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed. 

  • Pulled taut, without any slack. 

noun
  • Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. 

  • The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. 

  • An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense. 

verb
  • To apply a tense to. 

  • To make tense. 

  • To become tense. 

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