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sus⋅cep⋅ti⋅bil⋅i⋅ty

  [suh-sep-tuh-bil-i-tee]
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–noun, plural -ties.
1. state or character of being susceptible: susceptibility to disease.
2. capacity for receiving mental or moral impressions; tendency to be emotionally affected.
3. susceptibilities, capacities for emotion; feelings: His susceptibilities are easily wounded.
4. Electricity.
a. electric susceptibility.
b. magnetic susceptibility.
Origin:
1635–45; < ML susceptibilitās, equiv. to susceptibil(is) susceptible + -itās- -ity

Synonyms:
2. See sensibility.

electric susceptibility

 
–noun Electricity.
(when the components of electrical polarization are linear combinations of the components of the electric field) the coefficient or set of coefficients that multiply the components of the electric field. Also called susceptibility. Compare polarization (def. 3b).

magnetic susceptibility

 
–noun Electricity.
the coefficient or set of coefficients of the magnetic intensity in any expression giving the components of magnetization as linear combinations of the components of magnetic intensity.
Also called susceptibility.
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sus·cep·ti·bil·i·ty   (sə-sěp'tə-bĭl'ĭ-tē)   
n.   pl. sus·cep·ti·bil·i·ties
  1. The quality or condition of being susceptible.
  2. The capacity to be affected by deep emotions or strong feelings; sensitivity.
  3. susceptibilities Sensibilities; feelings.
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Susceptibility

Sus*cep`ti*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Susceptibilities. [Cf. F. susceptibilit['e].]

1. The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.

2. 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.
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Main Entry: sus·cep·ti·bil·i·ty
Pronunciation: s&-"sep-t&-'bil-&t-E
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -ties
1 : the quality or state of being susceptible : the state of being predisposed to, sensitive to, or of lacking the ability to resist something (as a pathogen,familial disease, or a drug) : SENSITIVITY
2 a : the ratio of the magnetization in a substanceto the corresponding magnetizing force —see PARAMAGNETIC b : the ratio of the electric polarizationto the electric intensity in a polarized dielectric
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