susceptibility
- 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.
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Contemporary Examples of susceptibility
One, creative fields differ in many respects, ranging from cost of production to susceptibility to digital copying.
What Would IP Free Industries Look Like? Probably Not Like Restaurants.Megan McArdle
October 16, 2012
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.
Historical Examples of susceptibility
The total renovation of the heart is evinced by susceptibility of conscience.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. IIFrancis Augustus Cox
This increases the susceptibility to softening from storm water or ground water.
American Rural HighwaysT. R. Agg
The worst fault of the test is its susceptibility to the influence of schooling.
The Measurement of IntelligenceLewis Madison Terman
They are somewhat ambiguous as to their susceptibility to comparison.
The difficulty was to overcome its susceptibility to attrition.
Mizora: A ProphecyMary E. Bradley
susceptibility
- the quality or condition of being susceptible
- the ability or tendency to be impressed by emotional feelings; sensitivity
- (plural) emotional sensibilities; feelings
- physics
- Also called: electric susceptibility(of a dielectric) the amount by which the relative permittivity differs from unitySymbol: Χ
- Also called: magnetic susceptibility(of a magnetic medium) the amount by which the relative permeability differs from unitySymbol: Κ