susceptibility

Noun

Meaning

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

Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

feeling sensibility diathesis capacity exposure capability taste preference bias sensitivity prone emotion liability bent affection
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Antonyms

immunity ant metro venom malice loathing
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Hypernyms

condition

Hyponyms

capacity capability sensitivity liability predisposition reactivity

Phrases with the word

having susceptibility

Derivatives

susceptibilities

Examples

Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process. Theodore Kaczynski

It is a troublesome thing this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended. Anne Brontë

The greatest successes of Soviet active measures in India remained the exploitation of the susceptibility of Indira Gandhi and her advisers to bogus CIA conspiracies against them. Indira Gandhi

Claghorn had long insisted that no human condition endured forever, with the corollary that the more complicated such a condition, the greater its susceptibility to change. Jack Vance

Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word. Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. Henry Adams

Close letter words and terms

Susanville suscept susceptance susceptible susceptibleness susceptibly