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susceptibility
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Medieval Latin susceptibilitatem (nominative susceptibilitas), from Late Latin susceptibilis, or else a native formation from susceptible + -ity.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability 2 emotional sensitivity 3 (context physics English) electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).
WordNet
n. the state of being susceptible; easily affected [syn: susceptibleness] [ant: unsusceptibility]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "susceptibility".
As all the women burst into sudden laughter at the susceptibility of men, the awkwardness dispersed.
Enchanted at seeing us again, he agreeably related to us all the misfortunes which had tried him and to which his susceptibility gave the name of humiliations.
Kathryn found herself wondering if the admiral thought a lack of susceptibility to homesickness was a good thing or a bad one.
General Ople not to despise him, both for his susceptibility and his patience.
There are certain people who by reason of a special susceptibility cannot tolerate phosphorus, and the exhibition of it causes in them nausea, oppression, and a feeling of pain in the epigastric region, tormina and tenesmus, accompanied with diarrhea, and in rare cases jaundice, sometimes lasting several months.
But if it be deficient, the volitive energies preponderate, and there is a lack of those susceptibilities of constitution, which prevent excessive waste.
Moreover, as suggested by the anthrax attacks of last fall, the immune system of elderly individuals may be sufficiently different to increase their susceptibility to certain microorganisms.
In 1881 Betancourt spoke of an instance of inherited susceptibility to belladonna, in which the external application of the ointment produced all the symptoms of belladonna poisoning.
These properties were not, of course, all shared by all proteinoids, for Fox could vary the properties of the proteinoid by varying the amino acids in the initial mixture, thus changing their susceptibility or resemblance to enzymes and conferring or removing their hormonal activity.
To any dependent intelligence blessed with our human susceptibilities, reverential love and submission are as obligatory, natural, and becoming on the brink of annihilation as on the verge of immortality.
He felt it as a profanation to break upon that enchanted strain--the susceptibility of his excited nature, the Greek softness and ardour of his secret soul, were swayed and captured by surprise.
French susceptibility would have made us look upon that glory as tarnished if Paris had been occupied without defence .
Again, when the solids of the body have been wasted, they lose their susceptibility to stimuli, and the food does no good.
But what about someone like April Cranshaw, who seems to have unusually high susceptibility?
It is melancholy to reflect that this nervous susceptibility to the libels of the English papers contributed certainly as much as, and perhaps more than, the consideration of great political interests to the renewal of hostilities.