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Definitions
excessive sensitivity to criticism
Word origin
From defensive + -ness.
Used in a sentence
“The gay vs. straight confrontation has been dealt with before in movies and plays but never with the gay character in control and never so free of defensiveness or homosexual guilt.”
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