Susceptibility : nf (word coming from susceptible).
The word “susceptibility” has several meanings:
1. The does bybeing susceptible ; lives sensitivity.
– Quote from the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867): “The temperament of individuals and their nervous susceptibility”.
Specially, didactic: Susceptibility to disease (predisposition, receptivity).
“The old notion of genetic “terrain” which defines susceptibility to a disease” (La Recherche, 1985).
Genoa susceptibility or resistance to cancer.
2. Character: of someone whoseself-esteem is very sensitive.
Chock someone's susceptibility.
See to spare susceptibilities.
Domain, occasion where manifest ce character.
– Quote from the French writer and publisher Jacques Chardonne, pen name of Jacques Boutelleau (1884-1968): “You were offending a family susceptibility”.
3. Physical : Magnetic susceptibility: constant of proportionality between magnetization and the magnetizing field.