susceptibility

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
susceptibility
    n 1: the state of being susceptible; easily affected [syn:
         {susceptibility}, {susceptibleness}] [ant: {immunity},
         {unsusceptibility}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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   2. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional
      excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation;
      impressibility; sensitiveness.
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   {Magnetic susceptibility} (Physics), the intensity of
      magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic field
      of unit strength. --Sir W. Thomson.
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   Syn: Capability; sensibility; feeling; emotion.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
152 Moby Thesaurus words for "susceptibility":
      a thing for, ability, ableness, accessibility, adaptability,
      adequacy, affectibility, affection, affectionateness, affectivity,
      affinity, agreeability, amativeness, amenability, amenableness,
      amorousness, aptitude, aptness, bendability, bent, bias,
      brightness, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, cast,
      cleverness, competence, conatus, conduciveness, defenselessness,
      delicacy, delight, demonstrativeness, diathesis, disposition,
      docility, ductibility, ductility, eagerness, ecstasy, educability,
      efficacy, efficiency, elasticity, enchantment, exposure,
      extendibility, extensibility, facility, faculty, feeling for,
      fictility, fitness, flair, flexibility, flexility, flexuousness,
      formativeness, genius, give, goatishness, helplessness, horniness,
      impressibility, impressionability, inclination, influenceability,
      intelligence, leaning, liability, liking, limberness, limen,
      litheness, lovelornness, lovesickness, malleability, moldability,
      motivation, movability, nakedness, nonimmunity, open-mindedness,
      openness, openness to sensation, penchant, perceptibility,
      persuadability, perviousness, physical sensibility, plasticity,
      pliability, pliancy, predilection, predisposition, prejudice,
      probability, proclivity, proficiency, proneness, propensity,
      qualification, quickness, rapture, readiness, readiness of feeling,
      receptiveness, receptivity, responsiveness, romanticism,
      sensation level, sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness,
      sensitivity, sensitivity to, sentience, sentiency, sentimentality,
      sequacity, sexiness, soft spot, springiness, submissiveness,
      sufficiency, suggestibility, suppleness, susceptivity,
      swayableness, talent, teachability, teachableness, tendency,
      tensileness, tensility, the goods, the stuff,
      threshold of sensation, tractability, tractility, trainableness,
      tropism, turn, twist, vulnerability, warp, weakness, what it takes,
      willingness, willowiness

    

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