susceptibility

susceptibility

English

Etymology

susceptible +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˌsɛptəˈbɪlɪti/

Noun

susceptibility (countable and uncountable, plural susceptibilities)

1. the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability
2. emotional sensitivity.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 40:

     The eyes were large and black, and had the moonlight's melancholy, with that tearful lustre which is the certain sign of keen susceptibility.

3. (biology, medicine, of a pathogen) Being vulnerable to a treatment (usually an antibiotic or antifungal); also, the degree of such vulnerability (i.e., weak, moderate, or strong).

   Synonym: sensitivity

   Derived terms: susceptibility testing

4. (physics) electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).

Translations

the condition of being susceptible

Bulgarian: податливост (bg) f (podatlivost) Catalan: susceptibilitat f Czech: náchylnost n Dutch: vatbaarheid (nl) Finnish: alttius (fi) French: susceptibilité (fr) German: Anfälligkeit (de) f Hungarian: fogékonyság (hu), hajlam (hu), hajlamosság Irish: leochaileacht f Italian: suscettività (it) f, suscettibilità (it) Old English: underfangelnes f Polish: podatność (pl) f Portuguese: susceptibilidade (pt) Romanian: susceptibilitate (ro) f Spanish: susceptibilidad Turkish: hassaslık (tr)

emotional sensitivity

Bulgarian: чувствителност (bg) f (čuvstvitelnost) Dutch: lichtgeraaktheid (nl) f, gevoeligheid (nl) f Finnish: herkkyys (fi) German: Empfänglichkeit f Polish: czułość (pl) f Romanian: susceptibilitate (ro) f Turkish: duyarlılık (tr), hassaslık (tr)

electric susceptibility

Dutch: susceptibiliteit (nl), elektrische susceptibiliteit Finnish: häiriintyvyys, suskeptibiliteetti German: Suszeptibilität (de) f Romanian: susceptivitate f Turkish: alınganlık (tr)