Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Capacity of admitting; susceptibility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Capacity for receiving; susceptibility.
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- noun Capacity for
receiving ;susceptibility .
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Examples
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His eyes were dark and impressive, and beamed with the light either of energy or of susceptivity — it was difficult to say which; it might have been a little of both.
The Woodlanders 2006
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Some weakly-organised individual, we will say at the age of five-and-twenty, whose main or whole talent rests on some prurient susceptivity, and nothing under it but shallowness and vacuum, is clutched hold of by the general imagination, is whirled aloft to the giddy height; and taught to believe the divine-seeming message that he is a great man: such individual seems the luckiest of men: and, alas, is he not the unluckiest?
Paras. 25-49 1909
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His eyes were dark and impressive, and beamed with the light either of energy or of susceptivity -- it was difficult to say which; it might have been a little of both.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
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But there they were; and when I have seen strangely present, at such chance intervals, a stern and even cold isolation of self-reliance side by side with a susceptivity almost feminine and the most eager craving for sympathy, it has seemed to me as though his habitual impulses for everything kind and gentle had sunk, for the time, under a sudden hard and inexorable sense of what fate had dealt to him in those early years.
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844
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