susceptibility

UK/səˌsɛptəˈbɪlɪti/US/səˌsɛptəˈbɪləti/

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,043 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: susceptibilities

Susceptibility is how easily somebody is affected by something. Susceptibility to infection.

It takes to and describes a tendency rather than a certainty. Susceptibility to a disease can be inherited without the disease itself being inevitable.

Definitions of susceptibility

1nounsusceptibilityHow easily somebody is affected by something.C1
“His susceptibility to chest infections kept him indoors all winter.”

susceptibility is a tendency.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*keh₂p-
Latin
susceptibilis
English
susceptible
English, today
susceptibility

From susceptible + -ity. susceptible comes from Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, from suscipiō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

susceptibility in the wild

Magnetic susceptibility indicates whether a material is attracted into or repelled out of a magnetic field.
Magnetic susceptibility
Quantitative measures of the magnetic susceptibility also provide insights into the structure of materials, providing insight into bonding and energy levels.
Magnetic susceptibility
Antibiotic sensitivity testing or antibiotic susceptibility testing is the measurement of the susceptibility of bacteria to antibiotics.
Antibiotic sensitivity testing
Antibiotic susceptibility testing has been needed since the discovery of the beta-lactam antibiotic penicillin.
Antibiotic sensitivity testing
Hypnotic susceptibility measures how easily a person can be hypnotized.
Hypnotic susceptibility

1 / 2

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the susceptibilis family

susceptible

susceptibility — used about once every 33,333 pages · #14,043 · point at the bar for the others

← Vocabulary