susceptibilityn.

/səsɛptɪˈbɪlɪti/

Etymology: < susceptible adj.: see -ity suffix. Compare medieval Latin susceptibilitas (Abelard), French susceptibilité (from 18th cent.).

The quality or condition of being susceptible; capability of receiving, being affected by, or undergoing something.

1. Const. of (now rare) or to.

a. Capability of undergoing a specified action or process.The action is mostly, now always, denoted by a noun (occasionally by a passive infinitive), which is usually equivalent to a passive gerund: e.g. susceptibility of application = capability of being applied; s. to reflection = capability of being reflected.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] > ability or liability to be affected

danger1377

subjection1593

susceptiblenessa1631

susceptibility1644

obnoxiety1656

obviousness1669

receptiveness1701

sensibility1703

affectibility1817

sensitiveness1825

impressionability1835

impressionality1884

affectability1908

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > possibility > [noun] > capacity for development

potentiality1625

potency1644

susceptibility1644

susception1656

capacity1659

capableness1731

capability1794

achievability1909

1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas viii. 91 Potestas passiva regiminis, a capacity or susceptibility to be governed.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. ix. 378 In proportion to it's susceptibility of liquifaction in a low degree of temperature.

1823 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 3 Jan. A visible substance without susceptibility of impact, I maintain to be an absurdity.

1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1872) 3rd Ser. iii. 35 Its susceptibility of application to the purpose.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. xiii. 302 A certain face close on handsome, had a fatal susceptibility to caricature.

b. Capability of being, or disposition to be, affected by something; sensibility or sensitiveness to something specified:

(a) external influences, impressions, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] > fact of being affected or experience > ability of person to be affected

susceptibilitya1676

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 35 The susceptibility of those influences, and the effects thereof.

1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism i. 20 The susceptibility to the opinions of those around us.

1856 J. H. Newman Callista 254 A sense of relations and aims, and a susceptibility of arguments, to which before she was an utter stranger.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1864) II. vi. 570 Sympathy, being a susceptibility to impression, is also a principle of action.

(b) feelings or emotions.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > [noun] > capacity for some specific emotion

susceptiblenessa1631

susceptibility1751

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 112. ⁋2 The same laxity of regimen is equally necessary to intellectual health, and to a perpetual susceptibility of occasional pleasure.

1755 E. Young Centaur iv, in Wks. (1757) IV. 209 A tenderness of heart, and a susceptibility of awe, with regard to God.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 1 Susceptibility of pleasure and pain.

ΚΠ

1803 T. Beddoes Hygëia III. ix. 171 When young persons..begin to have too great susceptibility of cold.

1820 M. Faraday Exper. Res. (1859) xvi. 66 The difference between these two alloys as to susceptibility to oxygen.

1882 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 50 67 My studies..have pointed to childhood as a period of extreme susceptibility to this disorder.

1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 218/2 The period of maximum susceptibility of the larva to the colour.

2. Without const.

(a) Capacity for feeling or emotion; disposition or tendency to be emotionally affected; sensibility.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun]

feeling?c1400

tendernessc1440

heart1557

nicety1583

toucha1586

apprehension1605

tender-heartedness1607

sensibility1609

sensibleness1613

acuteness1644

exquisiteness1650

susceptivity1722

sensation1744

soul1748

susceptibility1753

sensitivity1773

sensitiveness1788

affettuoso1791

sensibilité1817

soulfulness1842

mild-heartedness1849

susceptiveness1873

sensitivism1877

tender-mindedness1907

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xxi. 123 Yet was her susceptibility her only inducement; for the man was neither handsome..nor genteel.

1805 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 2) at Susceptible Men of extreme susceptibility are not calculated for command.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 66 The susceptibility, the vivacity, the natural turn for acting and rhetoric, which are indigenous on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xx. 78 There was something about the time and manner of the papal bull calculated to offend the susceptibility of a great and independent nation.

(b) plural. Capacities of emotion, esp. such as may be hurt or offended; sensitive feelings; sensibilities.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > touchiness > [noun] > feelings

sensibilities1753

susceptibility1846

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xxxiii. 228 Emily is a good girl; but she has susceptibilities already.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 39 The women, whose religious susceptibilities were often found extremely unmanageable.

1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos i. 6 It was the ‘another King, one Jesus’ which had roused the susceptibilities—kindled the jealous fury—of the minions of Cæsar.

1884 Gladstone in Daily News 23 Oct. 5/7 I have not knowingly wounded the susceptibilities or assailed the opinions of any one who may read them.

1896 Daily Graphic 10 Feb. 7/1 Nobody wants to offend French susceptibilities by the suggestion that our neighbours have jockeyed us in Siam.

b. Capacity for receiving mental or moral impressions.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > [noun]

sufferancec1374

passibilitya1398

passibleness?a1425

sense1536

resentment1640

impressiveness1663

impressibility1751

susceptibility1782

responsiveness1791

impressionability1835

affectability1836

affectivity1854

responsivitya1856

impressionableness1858

suscipiency1885

the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > [noun] > openness to suggestion

receptivitya1620

receptivenessa1651

susceptivity1722

susceptibility1782

impressionability1835

susceptiveness1873

manipulability1942

1782 V. Knox Ess. I. ii. 7 Furnished with a natural susceptibility, and free from any acquired impediment, the mind is then [sc. in youth] in the most favourable state for the admission of instruction.

1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 298 The same ‘susceptibilities’ and ‘potentialities’ are in each human mind.

c. Capability of being, or disposition to be, physically affected (as a living body, or an inanimate thing); spec. the capacity of a substance (e.g. iron) for being magnetized, measured by the ratio of the magnetization to the magnetizing force.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] > ability or liability to be affected > by magnetization

susceptibility1815

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 283 Different animals are susceptible of galvanism in very different degrees. In cold-blooded animals, this susceptibility sometimes continues for several days after death.

1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited ix. 287 An inhabitant of these islands, who has constitutional susceptibilities that are unpleasantly affected by a humid..atmosphere.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 267/1 The earlier experimenters arrived for the most part at the conclusion that the susceptibility κ of weakly magnetic bodies is constant.

1903 Lancet 4 Apr. 945/2 Susceptibility is very nearly allied to predisposition; it may perhaps be defined as acquired predisposition.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	susceptibility
释义	susceptibilityn. /səsɛptɪˈbɪlɪti/ Etymology: < susceptible adj.: see -ity suffix. Compare medieval Latin susceptibilitas (Abelard), French susceptibilité (from 18th cent.). The quality or condition of being susceptible; capability of receiving, being affected by, or undergoing something. 1. Const. of (now rare) or to. a. Capability of undergoing a specified action or process.The action is mostly, now always, denoted by a noun (occasionally by a passive infinitive), which is usually equivalent to a passive gerund: e.g. susceptibility of application = capability of being applied; s. to reflection = capability of being reflected. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] > ability or liability to be affected danger1377 subjection1593 susceptiblenessa1631 susceptibility1644 obnoxiety1656 obviousness1669 receptiveness1701 sensibility1703 affectibility1817 sensitiveness1825 impressionability1835 impressionality1884 affectability1908 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > possibility > [noun] > capacity for development potentiality1625 potency1644 susceptibility1644 susception1656 capacity1659 capableness1731 capability1794 achievability1909 1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas viii. 91 Potestas passiva regiminis, a capacity or susceptibility to be governed. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. ix. 378 In proportion to it's susceptibility of liquifaction in a low degree of temperature. 1823 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 3 Jan. A visible substance without susceptibility of impact, I maintain to be an absurdity. 1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1872) 3rd Ser. iii. 35 Its susceptibility of application to the purpose. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. xiii. 302 A certain face close on handsome, had a fatal susceptibility to caricature. b. Capability of being, or disposition to be, affected by something; sensibility or sensitiveness to something specified: (a) external influences, impressions, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] > fact of being affected or experience > ability of person to be affected susceptibilitya1676 a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 35 The susceptibility of those influences, and the effects thereof. 1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism i. 20 The susceptibility to the opinions of those around us. 1856 J. H. Newman Callista 254 A sense of relations and aims, and a susceptibility of arguments, to which before she was an utter stranger. a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1864) II. vi. 570 Sympathy, being a susceptibility to impression, is also a principle of action. (b) feelings or emotions. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > [noun] > capacity for some specific emotion susceptiblenessa1631 susceptibility1751 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 112. ⁋2 The same laxity of regimen is equally necessary to intellectual health, and to a perpetual susceptibility of occasional pleasure. 1755 E. Young Centaur iv, in Wks. (1757) IV. 209 A tenderness of heart, and a susceptibility of awe, with regard to God. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 1 Susceptibility of pleasure and pain. (c) physical agents or agencies, disease, etc. ΚΠ 1803 T. Beddoes Hygëia III. ix. 171 When young persons..begin to have too great susceptibility of cold. 1820 M. Faraday Exper. Res. (1859) xvi. 66 The difference between these two alloys as to susceptibility to oxygen. 1882 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 50 67 My studies..have pointed to childhood as a period of extreme susceptibility to this disorder. 1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 218/2 The period of maximum susceptibility of the larva to the colour. 2. Without const. a. (a) Capacity for feeling or emotion; disposition or tendency to be emotionally affected; sensibility. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] feeling?c1400 tendernessc1440 heart1557 nicety1583 toucha1586 apprehension1605 tender-heartedness1607 sensibility1609 sensibleness1613 acuteness1644 exquisiteness1650 susceptivity1722 sensation1744 soul1748 susceptibility1753 sensitivity1773 sensitiveness1788 affettuoso1791 sensibilité1817 soulfulness1842 mild-heartedness1849 susceptiveness1873 sensitivism1877 tender-mindedness1907 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xxi. 123 Yet was her susceptibility her only inducement; for the man was neither handsome..nor genteel. 1805 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 2) at Susceptible Men of extreme susceptibility are not calculated for command. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 66 The susceptibility, the vivacity, the natural turn for acting and rhetoric, which are indigenous on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. 1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xx. 78 There was something about the time and manner of the papal bull calculated to offend the susceptibility of a great and independent nation. (b) plural. Capacities of emotion, esp. such as may be hurt or offended; sensitive feelings; sensibilities. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > touchiness > [noun] > feelings sensibilities1753 susceptibility1846 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xxxiii. 228 Emily is a good girl; but she has susceptibilities already. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 39 The women, whose religious susceptibilities were often found extremely unmanageable. 1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos i. 6 It was the ‘another King, one Jesus’ which had roused the susceptibilities—kindled the jealous fury—of the minions of Cæsar. 1884 Gladstone in Daily News 23 Oct. 5/7 I have not knowingly wounded the susceptibilities or assailed the opinions of any one who may read them. 1896 Daily Graphic 10 Feb. 7/1 Nobody wants to offend French susceptibilities by the suggestion that our neighbours have jockeyed us in Siam. b. Capacity for receiving mental or moral impressions. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > [noun] sufferancec1374 passibilitya1398 passibleness?a1425 sense1536 resentment1640 impressiveness1663 impressibility1751 susceptibility1782 responsiveness1791 impressionability1835 affectability1836 affectivity1854 responsivitya1856 impressionableness1858 suscipiency1885 the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > [noun] > openness to suggestion receptivitya1620 receptivenessa1651 susceptivity1722 susceptibility1782 impressionability1835 susceptiveness1873 manipulability1942 1782 V. Knox Ess. I. ii. 7 Furnished with a natural susceptibility, and free from any acquired impediment, the mind is then [sc. in youth] in the most favourable state for the admission of instruction. 1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 298 The same ‘susceptibilities’ and ‘potentialities’ are in each human mind. c. Capability of being, or disposition to be, physically affected (as a living body, or an inanimate thing); spec. the capacity of a substance (e.g. iron) for being magnetized, measured by the ratio of the magnetization to the magnetizing force. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] > ability or liability to be affected > by magnetization susceptibility1815 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 283 Different animals are susceptible of galvanism in very different degrees. In cold-blooded animals, this susceptibility sometimes continues for several days after death. 1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited ix. 287 An inhabitant of these islands, who has constitutional susceptibilities that are unpleasantly affected by a humid..atmosphere. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 267/1 The earlier experimenters arrived for the most part at the conclusion that the susceptibility κ of weakly magnetic bodies is constant. 1903 Lancet 4 Apr. 945/2 Susceptibility is very nearly allied to predisposition; it may perhaps be defined as acquired predisposition. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1644
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