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/səsˌɛptəbˈɪləti/ Listen

noun

Susceptibility n. (pl. susceptibilities)

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

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.

Synonyms: Capability; sensibility; feeling; emotion.

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Etymology of 'Susceptibility'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Susceptibility" Quotes from Famous Books

... and throughout the weeks that followed, Rachael mused somewhat sadly upon the extraordinary susceptibility of the human male. Magsie's methods were those of a high-school belle. She pouted, she dimpled, she dispensed babyish slaps, she lapsed into rather poorly imitated baby talk. She was sometimes mysterious and tragic, according to her own lights, her ...

— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris

... the century may be reckoned as contained in the reign of George II. (1727-1760). It was more remarkable than the preceding for vigor of thinking and often for genuine poetic fancy and susceptibility, though inferior in the skill and details of literary composition. Samuel Johnson produced his principal works before the close of this period. Among the novelists, Richardson alone had anything in common with him. Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne are equally distant from the dignified ...

— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta

... themselves before his eyes as the projection of a powerful inner impression. All his sensations were abnormally acute, and his ever-active imagination confused the border-lands of the actual and the visionary. Such a nature as Shelley's, through its far greater susceptibility than is common even when with artistic temperaments, was debarred in moments of high-strung emotion from observing the ordinary distinctions of subject and object; and this peculiar quality must never be forgotten when we seek to estimate the proper proportions of Dichtung and Wahreit in certain ...

— Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Addington Symonds

... followed him into the bush, preserving his noxious innocence and all-round ineptitude in their pristine integrity. Naturally, he had taken a slight local colour, but this seemed to express the limit of his susceptibility to altered conditions. ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... to know the lot of other animal creatures—however far below us, they are still the sole created things which share with us the capability of pleasure and the susceptibility ...

— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley

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