susceptibility

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susceptibility
n. vulnerability; emotional sensitivity; inability to resist a particular external influence, impressionability

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Susceptibility
  • In physics, the susceptibility of a material or substance describes its response to an applied field. More generally, a susceptibility is a quantification for the change of an extensive property under variation of an intensive property.
There are many kinds of susceptibilities, for example:
Magnetic susceptibility
Electric susceptibility

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susceptibility

Noun
1. the state of being susceptible; easily affected
(synonym) susceptibleness
(antonym) unsusceptibility, immunity
(hypernym) condition, status
(hyponym) liability
(attribute) susceptible


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susceptibility
n. náchylnost; ovlivnitelnost

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Susceptibility
(n.)
The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
  
 
(n.)
Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.
  

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