n.; pl.Susceptibilities [ Cf. F. susceptibilité. ] 1. The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]
Magnetic susceptibility (Physics), the intensity of magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic field of unit strength. Sir W. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
[こりしょう, korishou](adj-na, adj-no, n) (1) fastidiousness; enthusiasm for one thing; meticulousness; monomania; obsession; (2) susceptibility for a stiffening of the shoulders; (P)[Add to Longdo]