Sensitive vs. Vulnerable — What's the Difference?

Quick to detect or respond to slight changes, signals, or influences

Susceptible to physical harm or damage

Having or displaying a quick and delicate appreciation of others' feelings

Susceptible to emotional injury, especially in being easily hurt

Kept secret or with restrictions on disclosure to avoid endangering security

Susceptible to attack

A person who is believed to respond to paranormal influences.

Open to censure or criticism; assailable

Capable of perceiving with a sense or senses

Susceptible to loss or poor performance

Responsive or capable of responding to a chemical stimulus or substance. Used especially of a cell, tissue, or organism.

(Games) In a position to receive greater penalties or bonuses in a hand of bridge. In a rubber, used of the pair of players who score 100 points toward game.

Susceptible to slight differences or changes in the environment

More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

Readily altered by the action of an agent

Open to disclosing one's inner thoughts and feelings, acting in spite of one's instinct to self-preservation.

Registering slight differences or changes of condition. Used of an instrument.

(computing) More likely to be exposed to malicious programs or viruses.

Easily irritated

Capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body.

Predisposed to inflammation as a result of preexisting allergy or disease

Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; assailable; as, a vulnerable reputation.

Aware of or careful about the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others

Susceptible to attack;

Easily hurt, upset, or offended

Susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation;

Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price

Capable of being wounded or hurt;

Of or relating to secret or classified information

Susceptible to physical or emotional injury;

A sensitive person.

One held to be endowed with psychic or occult powers.

Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.

To stimuli.

(of a person) Easily offended, upset, or hurt.

(of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting.

Meant to be concealed or kept secret.

, intricate, and requiring great delicacy.

(of an instrument) accurate; able to register small changes in some property.

(archaic) Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.

A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.

Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.

Serving to affect the sense; sensible.

Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.

Responsive to physical stimuli;

Having acute mental or emotional sensibility;

Able to feel or perceive;

Hurting;

Used officially of classified information or matters affecting national security