susceptibility

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Buckland PR, Williams NM, Williams HJ, Norton N, et al. (2003) A haplotype implicated in schizophrenia susceptibility is associated with reduced COMT expression in human brain.

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being susceptible.
  2. noun The capacity to be affected by deep emotions or strong feelings; sensitivity.
  3. noun Sensibilities; feelings.

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  • Though with feminine susceptibility, my companions caught all the melancholy associations of the scene, yet these could but imperfectly overcome the gayety of girlish spirits. —  Sketches and Studies
  • To beauty he would appear to have been always susceptible, but his was the lightly-stirred susceptibility which is an affair of the senses rather than of the soul. —  Horace
  • Of these latter there were a goodly number, some made enemies by his own fault, through over-susceptibility or unconscious arrogance. —  Balzac
  • The king of Sardinia was believed to have the best performers in Europe; less than that was enough to quicken the musical susceptibility which is perhaps an invariable element in the most completely sensuous natures. —  Rousseau (Volume 1 of 2)
  • Smothering a curse at her newfound susceptibility, at the tangle of curiosity, fascination, and schoolgirlish need that had allowed him to take such liberties and seduced her into participating as she had, she closed her room door, flicked her skirts straight, and headed for the stairs. —  Stephanie Laurens - The Ideal Bride
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  1. = French susceptibilité = Spanish susceptibilidad = Portuguese susceptibilidade = Italian suscettibilità, from Middle Latin susceptibilita(t-)s, present participle of *susceptibilis, susceptible: see susceptible.
 

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/səsɛptɪˈbɪləti/
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