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Another word for susceptibility

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Noun

  1. The condition of being laid open to something undesirable or injurious

    See also:

    protection

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Another word for susceptibility

Noun
  1. See also:

    sensitivity

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The influence of traction in diminishing the susceptibility of nickel was first noticed by Kelvin (W.

  • The mere reading of accounts of seances developed the peculiar susceptibility in some persons, while others, who became mediums ultimately, did so only after prolonged and patient waiting.

  • The requirements of barley within the soil, and its susceptibility to the external influences of season, are very similar to those of its near ally, wheat.

  • Bismuth, the strongest of the diamagnetics, has a negative susceptibility which is numerically 20 times less than that of liquid oxygen.

  • The magnetic susceptibility expresses the numerical relation of the magnetization to the magnetizing force.

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