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English Dictionary: susceptibility by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
susceptibility
n
  1. the state of being susceptible; easily affected [syn: susceptibility, susceptibleness]
    Antonym(s): immunity, unsusceptibility
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Susceptibility \Sus*cep`ti*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl.
      {Susceptibilities}. [Cf. F. susceptibilit[82].]
      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.
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