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Susceptibility
Sus-cepˊti-bil′i-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Susceptibilities
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. [Cf. F.
susceptibilité
.] 1.
The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
2.
Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.
Magnetic susceptibility
(Physics)
, the intensity of magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic field of unit strength.
Sir W. Thomson.
Syn. – Capability; sensibility; feeling; emotion.
Definition 2024
susceptibility
susceptibility
English
Noun
susceptibility (plural susceptibilities)
- the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability
- emotional sensitivity
- (physics) electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).
Translations
the condition of being susceptible
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emotional sensitivity
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electric susceptibility
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