sensitivity

感受性、敏感さ、感度

小さな変化や感情、自分に影響する物事を感じ取ったり、反応したりする力。

やさしい英語で： The ability to notice or respond to small changes, feelings, or things that affect you.

• Her skin sensitivity makes some soaps uncomfortable.
• He showed great sensitivity to her feelings.
• The device’s sensitivity allows it to detect tiny movements.

使い方： sensitivity to something (The medicine increased her sensitivity to sunlight.)

類義語： sensitiveness, responsiveness

反対語： insensitivity

よく使う表現： sensitivity to light, show sensitivity, skin sensitivity

感度

操作機器を動かしたとき、ゲームの視点やキャラクターが動く量や速さ。

やさしい英語で： How far or fast your game view or character moves when you move a control device.

• Try lowering the mouse sensitivity.
• High sensitivity lets me turn quickly in the game.
• She adjusted the controller sensitivity to improve her aim.

よく使う表現： mouse sensitivity, adjust sensitivity, high sensitivity

感度、再現率

調べる状態が実際にある人や事例のうち、検査で正しく見つけられる割合。

やさしい英語で： How often a test correctly finds the condition in people or cases that actually have it.

• The test has high sensitivity.
• Researchers measured sensitivity using known positive cases.
• Increasing sensitivity may also produce more false positive results.

類義語： true positive rate, recall

よく使う表現： test sensitivity, high sensitivity, sensitivity and specificity