susceptibility

IPA: sʌsɛptʌbˈɪɫʌti

noun

  • the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability
  • emotional sensitivity.
  • (biology, medicine, of a pathogen) Being vulnerable to a treatment (usually an antibiotic or antifungal); also, the degree of such vulnerability (i.e., weak, moderate, or strong).
  • (physics) electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).
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Examples of "susceptibility" in Sentences

  • The most important is susceptibility.
  • Originally, the link was to susceptibility.
  • Everyone's skin has different susceptibility.
  • The electric susceptibility of a vacuum is zero.
  • The allergy itself, the susceptibility, is not a disease.

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