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susceptibility en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • [səˌsɛptəˈbɪləɾi] (Canada, General-American)
  • /səˌsɛptəˈbɪlɪti/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [səˌseptəˈbɪləɾi] (Australia)
  • /səˌsɛptəˈbɪləti/ (Canada, General-American)
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  • /səˌseptəˈbɪləti/ (Australia)

Etymology

Etymology tree English susceptible Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English susceptibility From susceptible + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being susceptible; vulnerability.
    • It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […] 2015 August 29, “Different Blood Cell-Derived Transcriptome Signatures in Cows Exposed to Vaccination Pre- or Postpartum”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
  2. (countable) A way in which one is susceptible.
    • It seems that the spiritual fermentation of the cabbalists, who in the sixteenth century established a center in Northern Palestine (Safed) and aroused the dormant susceptibilities of the Orient, penetrated also into Yemen and had the effect of a messianic message to the languishing souls longing for redemption. 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 365:
  3. (countable, uncountable) emotional sensitivity.
    • The eyes were large and black, and had the moonlight's melancholy, with that tearful lustre which is the certain sign of keen susceptibility. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Anticipation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 40:
  4. (countable, of a pathogen, uncountable) Being vulnerable to a treatment (usually an antibiotic or antifungal); also, the degree of such vulnerability (i.e., weak, moderate, or strong).
  5. (countable, uncountable) electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).

Forms

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Antonyms

immunity

Deriveds

supersusceptibility · chemosusceptibility · atherosusceptibility · immunosusceptibility · hypersusceptibility · trypanosusceptibility · nonsusceptibility · insusceptibility · magnetic susceptibility · unsusceptibility

Synonyms

sensitivity

Translations (35)

cs náchylnost (the condition of being susceptible) · tr duyarlılık (emotional sensitivity) · ca susceptibilitat (the condition of being susceptible) · de Anfälligkeit (the condition of being susceptible) · fr susceptibilité (the condition of being susceptible) · hu hajlam (the condition of being susceptible) · tr hassaslık (emotional sensitivity) · it suscettività (the condition of being susceptible) · de Empfänglichkeit (emotional sensitivity) · nl lichtgeraaktheid (emotional sensitivity) · nl gevoeligheid (emotional sensitivity) · nl susceptibiliteit (electric susceptibility) · it suscettibilità (the condition of being susceptible) · tr hassaslık (the condition of being susceptible) · tr alınganlık (electric susceptibility) · pt suscetibilidade (the condition of being susceptible) · ro susceptibilitate (emotional sensitivity) · pl podatność (the condition of being susceptible) · nl vatbaarheid (the condition of being susceptible) · es suscetibilidad (the condition of being susceptible) · ga leochaileacht (the condition of being susceptible) · fi suskeptibiliteetti (electric susceptibility) · fi alttius (the condition of being susceptible) · pl czułość (emotional sensitivity) · bg податливост (the condition of being susceptible) · de Suszeptibilität (electric susceptibility) · fi herkkyys (emotional sensitivity) · hu fogékonyság (the condition of being susceptible) · ro susceptibilitate (the condition of being susceptible) · fi häiriintyvyys (electric susceptibility) · hu hajlamosság (the condition of being susceptible) · nl elektrische susceptibiliteit (electric susceptibility) · ang underfangelnes (the condition of being susceptible) · bg чувствителност (emotional sensitivity) · ro susceptivitate (electric susceptibility)