The Collaborative International Dictionary
Susceptibility \Sus*cep`ti*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Susceptibilities. [Cf. F. susceptibilit['e].]
The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
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Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.
Magnetic susceptibility (Physics), the intensity of magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic field of unit strength.
--Sir W. Thomson.Syn: Capability; sensibility; feeling; emotion.
Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) a measure of the magnetization of a material per unit of applied magnetic field
Wikipedia
In electromagnetism, the magnetic susceptibility ( Latin: , “receptive”; denoted χ) is one measure of the magnetic properties of a material. The susceptibility indicates whether a material is attracted into or repelled out of a magnetic field, which in turn has implications for practical applications. Quantitative measures of the magnetic susceptibility also provide insights into the structure of materials, providing insight into bonding and energy levels.
Usage examples of "magnetic susceptibility".
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a primitive system dependent upon alternations in magnetic susceptibility and designed to measure, in the brain at least and very crudely, areas of neural activation.
Deoxygenated blood was more highly paramagnetic and, therefore, the machine detected a larger observed magnetic susceptibility effect.