susceptibility

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˌsɛptəˈbɪlɪti/

Noun

susceptibility (countable and uncountable, plural susceptibilities)

1. the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability
2. emotional sensitivity.
   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, 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. (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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Romanian: susceptivitate f
• Turkish: alınganlık (tr)