Cultural Sensitivity Vocabulary

noun a type of training designed to increase awareness and understanding of one's own and others' feelings, needs, and perspectives

• The company requires all employees to undergo sensitivity training to promote a respectful work environment.
• We have to sit through sensitivity training next week, ugh.
• I heard the new hire got sent to sensitivity training for making inappropriate jokes.
• Sensitivity training is like a crash course in empathy and understanding.

noun the quality or state of being sensitive

• The new equipment is designed with high sensitivity to detect even the smallest changes.
• She has a lot of sensitivity when it comes to other people's feelings.
• I can't believe he has such thin skin, he needs to toughen up and stop being so sensitive.
• The artist's sensitivity to color and light is evident in all of her paintings.