susceptibility
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Etymology edit
susceptible + -ity.
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Noun edit
susceptibility (countable and uncountable, plural susceptibilities)
- the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability
- emotional sensitivity.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Anticipation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 40:
- The eyes were large and black, and had the moonlight's melancholy, with that tearful lustre which is the certain sign of keen susceptibility.
- (biology, medicine, of a pathogen) Being vulnerable to a treatment (usually an antibiotic or antifungal); also, the degree of such vulnerability (i.e., weak, moderate, or strong).
- Synonym: sensitivity
- Derived terms: susceptibility testing
- (physics) electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).
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the condition of being susceptible
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emotional sensitivity
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electric susceptibility
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