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 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.
- 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.
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 (comparepermittivity ).
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
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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
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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.
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In this case cancer susceptibility is inherited in autosomal dominant manner.
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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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.
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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
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"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
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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."
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"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
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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.
Des commented on the word susceptibility
"The Unseen Essential" Author:JAmes P. Gills,M.D.
His own susceptibility to a consumerist mentality was apparent.
November 1, 2010