To provide a heat developable photosensitive material having high sensitivity, low fog and superior image preservability after heat development.

In the heat developable photosensitive material having on a support a photosensitive layer containing photosensitive silver halide grains, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a polymeric binder and an adjacent layer adjacent to the photosensitive layer and containing a polymeric binder, at least one of the photosensitive layer and the adjacent layer contains a compound represented by formula (1).