sensitivist
(ˈsɛnsɪtɪvɪst)
[f. sensitive a. + -ist.]
The designation of a school of novelists in Holland, who aim at combining in their methods the valuable qualities of impressionism and realism.
| 1891 E. Gosse Introd. to Couperus' Footsteps of Fate 5 The Dutch Sensitivists. 1903 Blackw. Mag. Apr. 557/1 They would be realists, or naturalists, or sensitivists, or heaven knows what. |