English
extrasensitive
From extra- + sensitive.
Formed from extra- + sensitive
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter ‘being on the outside’
Latin extrā ‘outside, except, beyond’
English extra-
Proto-Indo-European *sent- ‘to feel’
Proto-Italic *sentiō ‘to feel’
Latin sentiō ‘to feel’
Medieval Latin sensitivus
Middle French sensitif
English sensitive
Today it means
adj Highly or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / extrasensitive