Home / Thesaurus / susceptibility
Thesaurus: susceptibility
The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
Related headwords
susceptibledefinitionaffecteddefinitionstatedefinitioncapabilitydefinitionfeelingdefinitionsensibilitydefinitionacceptationdefinitionbroadestdefinitioncapacitydefinitiondeepdefinitioneasilydefinitionemotionaldefinitionexcitementdefinitionimpressibilitydefinitionimpressionsdefinitionqualitydefinitionreceivingdefinitionsensitivenessdefinitionspecificallydefinitionbodydefinitionemotiondefinitionfielddefinitionintensitydefinitionmagneticdefinitionmagnetizationdefinitionphysicsdefinitionplaceddefinitionsirdefinition
Definitions
- n. The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
- n. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.
- n. the state of being susceptible; easily affected
- 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.
- n:100 n. the state of being susceptible; easily affected