Category:Susceptibility

Sus*cep`ti*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Susceptibilities. Etym: [cf. F. Susceptibilité.]

1. The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of Receiving impressions, or of being affected.

2. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; Sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; Sensitiveness. Magnetic susceptibility (physics), the intensity of Magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic field of unit Strength. Sir w. Thomson.

Syn. -- capability; sensibility; feeling; emotion.