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susceptibility |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: susceptibility n : the state of being susceptible; easily affected [syn: {susceptibleness}] [ant: {unsusceptibility}]
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