What's the difference between pensive and sensive?
Pensive
Definition:
(a.) Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
(a.) Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly literary and pensive was Clouds of Sils Maria , in which France's Olivier Assayas combined some modish themes — the internet, celebrity gossip, superhero movies — with some hoarier themes regarding the theatre-cinema divide, ageing and female rivalry.
(2) It celebrates smoking's conviviality and the splendid isolation of the smoker, the smoker's exhibitionism and her pensive introversion.
(3) Aware always of what he called "the desperately thin ice" we walked on, he surveyed the world and our place in it with a pensive realism, striking no heroic postures.
(4) Like Evra at Anfield the other week, he looks pensive.
(5) Watching 5,000 people stream into the UK's biggest nightclub, recently voted one of the top 20 clubs in the world by DJ magazine, boss Sacha Lord looks pensive.
(6) Gunduz, standing pensively before the image of Ataturk, seems to have a different idea of what is Turkish.
(7) His was a slow and pensive start, in which was not only overtaken by the Ferrari pair but also by Rosberg, Max Verstappen and Felipe Massa.
(8) The party leader, Pablo Iglesias , is featured looking pensive on his balcony, working at a table in a sparsely furnished room and watering a solitary ivy plant.
(9) The guitarist also revealed he is working on a new X-pensive Winos album, the first since 1992's Main Offender.
(10) Hou became Mao's personal photographer and, over 12 years, produced pictures that burnished his image and shaped the way he is seen even now: on the seashore; pensive before the Yellow river; jovial in a crowd.
(11) The plot of Anderson's pink gateau of a movie, with its dowager duchesses, murderers and bakers, turns on the fate of a "priceless" Renaissance portrait of a youth pensively clawing an apple with long, bony fingers.
(12) After all, the lead actor is Shia LaBeouf, a boy-man who never explains to viewers whether he's deliberately trying to be a cheap copy of pensive Ed Norton.
(13) Real Madrid's coach Carlo Ancelotti looks pensive ahead of the final.
(14) So it is right that data-privacy and data-retention issues involving Facebook, Google and their brethren are being scrutinised in the European courts , and that the European Commission is working up a consumer-data protection plan that would include the right to have your data erased – or as the EC puts it, with a pensive Mediterranean poetry, the "right to be forgotten".
(15) Messi runs around in delirium, Mascherano is in floods of tears, Sabella doesn't appear to believe he's led a team to a World Cup final (stop it, be nice), Kuyt, Robben and Sneijder look pensive, and Van Gaal goes around doing the polite thing, shaking hands.
(16) The rendition , complete with pensive stares, strummed chords and graceful spins of a floating guitar, went viral – Bowie himself retweeted it, quoting his 1995 song Hallo Spaceboy.
(17) Next was the high jump, the event she was more pensive about having had only four practice sessions this year.
(18) 7.57pm BST The teams are in the tunnel Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard is looking pensive, staring straight ahead as he waits to lead out Liverpool, whose players are wearing largely white shirts with red trim, black shorts and black socks.
(19) The 16-year-old, a slight boy with a pensive air, had hoped to reach his brother in Germany but had spent two months stranded in the squalid improvised refugee camp at Idomeni in northern Greece, praying for Macedonia to reopen the gateway to central Europe.
(20) It'd be disingenuous to omit that there were a fair number of ding-dong-style celebratory messages amidst the pensive reflections on the end of an era.
Sensive
Definition:
(a.) Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.
Example Sentences:
(1) A high degree of specificity was detected in the normal group (only 1.5% of false negatives) while the sensivity was rather low.
(2) Accordingly 4-hydro-peroxy-cyclophosphamide because of its better availibility and stability may be used as "activated" cyclophosphamide in screening tests for cyclophosphamide-sensivity of human tumours in vitro.
(3) Comparative studies of two methods for the determination of serum lipase activity (SLA) in human serum show in both methods, the one titrimetric the other photometric, a comparable sensivity and comparable results, especially within the group of subjects suffering from pancreactic diseases.
(4) In accordance with our previous results, these experiments show that the prostates of Ellobius lutescens lose their sensivity to androgens after puberty.
(5) reported the results of research on the antibiotic sensivity test and on the resistance to chemioantibiotics of urine bacterial flora.
(6) At the same time, the good sensivity of salmonella is pointed out.
(7) Sensivity of cAMP phosphodiesterase to the effect of its inhibitors and stimulants--theophylline, papaverine and imidazole was higher in the patients as compared with the healthy persons.
(8) In all 23 cases of osteomyelitis scintigraphy showed an indication in form of increased activity in the respective bones; so the sensivity of this investigation, found in our study, was 1.0.
(9) The general value of the stereological technique in ultrastructural neuroanatomical research is discussed and it is concluded that quantitative methods are more sensive to small and gradual changes and should give a better estimation of transneuronal effects and of the amount of degeneration than purely qualitative methods.
(10) If this amplitude is greater than 2 Madsen units at sensivity 3, ther is not fluid in the middle ear.
(11) We report here experiments undertaken in pairs of hepatocytes that demonstrate a marked voltage sensivity of junctional conductance and, thus, contradict earlier findings reported by this laboratory (Spray, D.C., R.D.ginzberg, E.A., E. A. Morales, Z. Gatmaitan and I.M.
(12) The Welch Allyn 'Audioscope' a specificity of 84.2 per cent and sensivity of 57.5 per cent; standard tympanometry a specificity of 71 per cent and sensitivity of 88 per cent; the Welch Allyn 'Microtymp' a specificity of 63 per cent and sensitivity of 90 per cent.
(13) It enables greater sensivity and specifity in selection of patients with coronary heart disease compared to stress electrocardiography alone.
(14) At the same time, the sensivity of the adrenal cortex to ACTH was relatively high.
(15) Furthermore, uterine borns from ovariectomized animals injected with 17-beta estradiol, regain the lack of functional sensivity towards oxamate.
(16) Sensivity of 1348 cultures belonging to 8 bacterial species with respect to benzylpenicillin, streptomycin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, oxytetracycline, chlortetracycline, erythromycin, oleandomycin, neomycin and monomycin was determined.
(17) Despite of increased plasma catecholamine levels myocardial sensivity to catecholamines administered for therapeutic reasons is not diminished.
(18) In this study the sensivity of the two methods, either isolated or associated was not sufficient to allow their substitution to venography.
(19) The goal should be the identification of those oncotypes more sensive to the laser energy, allowing consequently a dosage of the energy proportional to the light absorption coefficient, reducing any side effects.
(20) This technique involving delayed immunization results in increased sensivity and makes possible studies of various cell types, the response of which is normally very low or which are difficult to manipulate experimentally in situ.