sensibilizar
Portuguese, verb
sensibilizar is spelled S-E-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-Z-A-R (12 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,653rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sensibilizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to raise awareness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar sensível, reagente”.
What does sensibilizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to raise awareness
- 2
to sensitize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar sensível, reagente 2. causar boa impressão; atrair atenção 3. tornar(-se) sensível, comovido 4. tornar(-se) empático, ciente, compreensivo (de problema, situação, dificuldade, etc. alheia)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sensibilizar
- sensibilizo first-person present singular
- sensibilizei first-person preterite singular
- sensibilizado participle past
- sensibilizares infinitive second-person singular
- sensibilizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sensibilizardes infinitive plural second-person
- sensibilizarem infinitive plural third-person
- sensibilizando gerund
- sensibilizados masculine participle past
- sensibilizada feminine participle past
- sensibilizadas feminine participle past
- sensibilizas indicative present second-person
- sensibiliza indicative present singular
- sensibilizamos first-person indicative plural
- sensibilizais indicative plural present
- sensibilizam indicative plural present
- sensibilizava first-person imperfect indicative
- sensibilizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is sensibilizar in Portuguese?
sensibilizar appears 2.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).