A Topical Dictionary: Search for susceptibility

Dictionary Results For "susceptibility" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /səˌsɛptəˈbɪlɪti/

Noun

the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability
emotional sensitivity

Translations

Czech: náchylnost

Italian: suscettività

fr:susceptibility io:susceptibility hu:susceptibility ru:susceptibility ta:susceptibility te:susceptibility vi:susceptibility zh:susceptibility

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Susceptibility \Sus*cep`ti*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl.
Susceptibilities. [Cf. F. susceptibilit['e].]
1. The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability
of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
[1913 Webster]

2. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional
excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation;
impressibility; sensitiveness.
[1913 Webster]

Magnetic susceptibility (Physics), the intensity of
magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic field
of unit strength. --Sir W. Thomson.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Capability; sensibility; feeling; emotion.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet susceptibility
n : the state of being susceptible; easily affected [syn: susceptibleness]
[ant: unsusceptibility]

Moby Dictionary
a thing for , ability , ableness , accessibility , adaptability ,
adequacy , affectibility , affection , affectionateness , affectivity ,
affinity , agreeability , amativeness , amenability , amenableness ,
amorousness , aptitude , aptness , bendability , bent , bias ,
brightness , caliber , capability , capableness , capacity , cast ,
cleverness , competence , conatus , conduciveness , defenselessness ,
delicacy , delight , demonstrativeness , diathesis , disposition ,
docility , ductibility , ductility , eagerness , ecstasy , educability ,
efficacy , efficiency , elasticity , enchantment , exposure ,
extendibility , extensibility , facility , faculty , feeling for ,
fictility , fitness , flair , flexibility , flexility , flexuousness ,
formativeness , genius , give , goatishness , helplessness , horniness ,
impressibility , impressionability , inclination , influenceability ,
intelligence , leaning , liability , liking , limberness , limen ,
litheness , lovelornness , lovesickness , malleability , moldability ,
motivation , movability , nakedness , nonimmunity , open-mindedness ,
openness , openness to sensation , penchant , perceptibility ,
persuadability , perviousness , physical sensibility , plasticity ,
pliability , pliancy , predilection , predisposition , prejudice ,
probability , proclivity , proficiency , proneness , propensity ,
qualification , quickness , rapture , readiness , readiness of feeling ,
receptiveness , receptivity , responsiveness , romanticism ,
sensation level , sensibility , sensibleness , sensitiveness ,
sensitivity , sensitivity to , sentience , sentiency , sentimentality ,
sequacity , sexiness , soft spot , springiness , submissiveness ,
sufficiency , suggestibility , suppleness , susceptivity ,
swayableness , talent , teachability , teachableness , tendency ,
tensileness , tensility , the goods , the stuff ,
threshold of sensation , tractability , tractility , trainableness ,
tropism , turn , twist , vulnerability , warp , weakness , what it takes ,
willingness , willowiness