susceptibility
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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