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Susceptibility

Sus-cepˊti-bil′i-ty

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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)

  1. the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability
  2. emotional sensitivity
  3. (physics) electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).

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