English

Adjective

susceptive ‎(comparative more susceptive, superlative most susceptive)

1. susceptible
   • 2003, Masahiro Inuiguchi and Tetsuzo Tanino, "Two Directions toward Generalization of Rough Sets" in Masahiro Inuiguchi, Shoji Hirano and Shusaku Tsumoto (eds.), Rough Set Theory and Granular Computing, Berlin: Springer, p. 56,

     Both extracted if-then rules have their own advantages and disadvantages. Therefore both approaches are susceptive of modifications […] .

   • 2008, Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination and Cognitive Achievement of Children, World Bank Publications, section 3.2, p. 10,

     Also children who grow up in poorer households are likely to have poor health status and more susceptive to arsenic-caused illness.

   • 2013, Sijian Zhao and Qiao Zhang, "A study on risk early warning of crops caused by floods in Northeast China based on vulnerability" in Chongfu Huang and Cengiz Kahraman (eds.), Intelligent Systems and Decision Making for Risk Analysis and Crisis Response: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response, Istanbul, Turkey, 27-29 August 2013, London: Taylor & Francis Group, p. 98,

     […] Northeast China is one of the most susceptive areas to climage change in the country.

2. receptive
   • 1709, Isaac Watts, Preface to Horæ Lyricæ. Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, Eighth edition, London: James Brackstone, 1743, pp. xxiv-xxv,

     Amongst the infinite Numbers of Mankind, there is not more Difference in their outward Shape and Features, than in their Temper and inward Inclination. Some are more easily susceptive of Religion in a grave Discourse and sedate Reasoning. Some are best frighted from Sin and Ruin by Terror, […] : Others can feel no Motive so powerful as that which applies itself to their Ingenuity, and their polish'd Imagination.

   • 1841, Jonathan Duncan, The History of Guernsey: With Occasional Notices of Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, and Biographical Sketches, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Chapter III, p. 284,

     Deducting one-third for rocks, cliffs, and places not susceptive of culture,—and for houses, buildings of all sorts, streets and roads, say 5,120; there remain, fit for cultivation, 10,240 English acres.

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• suspective

Latin

Adjective

susceptive

1. vocative masculine singular of susceptivus