susceptibility
/səˌsɛptəˈbɪləti/ noun C1- The condition of being susceptible; vulnerability.
- A way in which one is susceptible.
- emotional sensitivity.
- Being vulnerable to a treatment (usually an antibiotic or antifungal); also, the degree of such vulnerability (i.e., weak, moderate, or strong).
- electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).
Plural susceptibilities
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Villefort’s dusty garb, his costume, which was not of courtly cut, excited the susceptibility of M.
There one may learn, for instance, what, out of regard to your nervous susceptibility, I will inform you of in the drawing-room, namely, that the credit of a banker is his physical and moral life; that credit sustains him as breath animates the body; and M.
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