affectability

For the normal, healthy woman this means the suppression of what is strongest in her nature, that power which differentiates her chiefly from man, her power of emotion, her "affectability" as the scientists call it.

The Business of Being a Woman Ida M. Tarbell 1900

Ordinary observation reveals, as literature has in general recorded, what Havelock Ellis has called the "greater affectability of the female mind."

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

This superior affectability crushed, leaves her atrophied.

The Business of Being a Woman Ida M. Tarbell 1900

Nenter describes what we may now call women's affectability, and considers that it makes them more prone than men to the sexual emotions, as is shown by the fact that, notwithstanding their modesty, they sometimes make sexual advances.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

In so far, however, as it is "almost physiological," and based on radical feminine characters, such as modesty, affectability, and sympathy, which have an organic basis in the feminine constitution and can therefore never altogether be changed, feminine dissimulation seems scarcely likely to disappear.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

Well, only if you're considering your emotional affectability by the direction of our federal government, and that direction's effect on society at large.

Arbiter Online 2009

There is, again, the further reason that well-marked and fully developed cases of inversion are probably rarer in women, though a slighter degree may be more common; in harmony with the greater affectability of the feminine organism to slight stimuli, and its lesser liability to serious variation. [

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899