Susceptibilities

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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