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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In medicine, an unusual predisposition toward infection or the attacks of infectious disease.
  • noun In electricity, the ratio of the magnetization produced in a specimen of iron, or other material, to the magnetizing force.
  • noun The state or character of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions or change, or of being influenced or affected; sensitiveness.
  • noun Capacity for feeling or emotion of any kind; sensibility: often in the plural.
  • noun Specifically, a special tendency to experience emotion; peculiar mental sensitiveness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
  • noun Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.
  • noun (Physics) the intensity of magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic field of unit strength.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability
  • noun emotional sensitivity
  • noun physics electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the state of being susceptible; easily affected

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Examples

  • The Chinese susceptibility is simply not the same as the Vietnamese or the Indonesians or the Turkish!

    Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006

  • Duster, president of the American Sociological Association, writes that research on isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine (BiDil), produced by NitroMed, incorrectly links a biological idea of race to heart disease and that socioeconomic factors better explain susceptibility to heart disease.

    Philosophy in the Ketchup Mine 2005

  • In this case cancer susceptibility is inherited in autosomal dominant manner.

    Archive 2004-11-01 2004

  • In 42 previous one-day internationals, he had never opened the bowling but Graeme Smith judged that the conditions and Pietersen's long-term susceptibility to left-arm spin justified the gamble.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Biomarkers are useful in following the course of cancer and evaluating which therapeutic regimes are most effective for a particular type of cancer, as well as determining long-term susceptibility to cancer or recurrence.

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  • The first piece, 'All alone,' I don't like, for these reasons: It possesses the fault of many pictures which I have noticed; more susceptibility is given to the child than he could possess.

    Anecdotes and Observations, Reflections and Critical Remarks 1824

  • "Teenagers who are exposed to cannabis have decreased serotonin transmission, which leads to mood disorders, as well as increased norepinephrine transmission, which leads to greater long-term susceptibility to stress," Dr. Gobbi stated.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • She said: "Teenagers who are exposed to cannabis have decreased serotonin transmission, which leads to mood disorders, as well as increased norepinephrine transmission, which leads to greater long-term susceptibility to stress."

    dailyindia.com News Feed 2009

  • "Teenagers who are exposed to cannabis have decreased serotonin transmission, which leads to mood disorders, as well as increased norepinephrine transmission, which leads to greater long-term susceptibility to stress," Dr. Gobbi stated.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • The history of Athens demonstrated the weaknesses of a direct democracy, namely the susceptibility to demagoguery or “rabble rousing” rhetoric, and the founders considered it mob rule, but in the 19th Century, there was a widespread belief in the right to riot and vigilante justice, both forms of democracy.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Wishful Linguistics 2010

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  • "The Unseen Essential" Author:JAmes P. Gills,M.D.

    His own susceptibility to a consumerist mentality was apparent.

    November 1, 2010