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The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.

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  1. n. The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
  2. n. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.
  3. n. the state of being susceptible; easily affected
  4. 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.
  5. n:100 n. the state of being susceptible; easily affected