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susceptibility

[ suh-sep-tuh-bil-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural sus·cep·ti·bil·i·ties.

state or character of being susceptible:
susceptibility to disease.
capacity for receiving mental or moral impressions; tendency to be emotionally affected.
susceptibilities, capacities for emotion; feelings:
His susceptibilities are easily wounded.
Electricity.
1. electric susceptibility.
2. magnetic susceptibility.

susceptibility

/ səˌsɛptəˈbɪlɪtɪ /

the quality or condition of being susceptible
the ability or tendency to be impressed by emotional feelings; sensitivity
plural emotional sensibilities; feelings
physics
1. Also calledelectric susceptibility (of a dielectric) the amount by which the relative permittivity differs from unity Χ
2. Also calledmagnetic susceptibility (of a magnetic medium) the amount by which the relative permeability differs from unity Κ

First recorded in 1635–45; from Medieval Latin susceptibilitās, equivalent to susceptibilis(is) susceptible + -itās- -ity

Arsenic can also cause cardiovascular disease, which African-Americans have greater genetic susceptibility for, she said.

One, creative fields differ in many respects, ranging from cost of production to susceptibility to digital copying.

The susceptibility of otherwise sane folks to End Times enthusiasms is odd but perhaps a bit predictable.

Our new hero has found that his capacity for love and his susceptibility to loss are more powerful than his hunger for tail.

There are others who disclose a special susceptibility to the more simple effects of pathos.

Even orthodoxy must trip it on tiptoe; there was always some prejudice, some susceptibility to consider.

These were terrific moments; I had already felt them, but never with such intense susceptibility as then.

She dwelt on the ancestral causes that gave him a nature of exceptional and dangerous susceptibility.

Or there may be mental weakness and neurotic susceptibility in regard to a special class of impressions.

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