Sus*cep`ti*bil"i*ty (?), n.; pl.
Susceptibilities (#). [Cf. F.
susceptibilité.] 1. The state or
quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions,
or of being affected.
2. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or
emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation;
impressibility; sensitiveness.
Magnetic susceptibility (Physics), the
intensity of magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic
field of unit strength. Sir W. Thomson.
Syn. -- Capability; sensibility; feeling; emotion.