Susceptibility
[sə,septɪ'bɪlɪtɪ] or [sə,sɛptə'bɪləti]
Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sensitiveness, impressibility, susceptibleness, susceptivity, excitability.
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Examples
- Why, he slowly replied, roughening his head more and more, he is all sentiment, and--and susceptibility, and--and sensibility, and--and imagination. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was as if she had drunk a great draught of scorn that stimulated her beyond the susceptibility to other feelings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In susceptibility to boredom,' returned that worthy, 'I assure you I am the most consistent of mankind. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My dear child, don't add to it still more--at least to your conception of it--by attributing to her all sorts of susceptibilities of your own. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Baffled--almost angry--he still clung to his fixed idea; my susceptibilities were pronounced marble--my face a mask. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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