suscitability

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English

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Etymology

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From suscitate +‎ -ability.

Noun

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suscitability (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The capability of being suscitated; excitability.
    • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: [] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, [], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, Act II, scene v:
      Svb. This's Heathen Greek, to you? And, what's your Mercury?
      Fac. A very Fugitiue, he will be gone, Sir.
      Svb. How know you him? Fac. By his viſcoſitie,
      His oleoſitie, and his ſuſcitabilitie.
    • 1917, Detroit Medical Journal, volume 18, page 71:
      Neither suscitability of the still-born infant or the resuscitability of the seemingly dead adult require proof to substantiate their possibility. With life extinguished neither operation has any concern, []
    • 1949 January 10, Frank Brookhouser, “It's Happening Here”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 240, number 10, page 21:
      One reader writes to say that students of English “will smile at your suscitability over ‘argy-bargy,’ quite common in the piquant argot of Scotland and North England.” We apologize for our suscitability.
    • 2002, Jill Mackavey, “Synergizing Internal and External Actin”, in Nicole Potter, editor, Movement for Actors, New York, NY: Allworth Press, →ISBN, page 206:
      I particularly like the word “suscitate” in connection with teaching and directing. The most fundamental aspect of human movement, breath, is carried on the tongue of suscitate. [] The students’ job is to cultivate “suscitability”—the ability to be stirred awake—and to commit fully to their formation.

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