SUSCEPTIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does susceptibility mean? 

• SUSCEPTIBILITY (noun)
  The noun SUSCEPTIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. the state of being susceptible; easily affected

  Familiarity information: SUSCEPTIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUSCEPTIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being susceptible; easily affected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

susceptibility; susceptibleness

Hypernyms ("susceptibility" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Attribute:

susceptible ((often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of)

insusceptible; unsusceptible (not susceptible to)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "susceptibility"):

liability (the state of being legally obliged and responsible)

capability; capacity (the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment)

predisposition; sensitivity (susceptibility to a pathogen)

reactivity (ready susceptibility to chemical change)

suggestibility (susceptibility or responsiveness to suggestion)

Antonym:

unsusceptibility (the state of not being susceptible)

Derivation:

susceptible ((often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of)

susceptible (easily impressed emotionally)

 Context examples 

Deficiency of serum C5 and its major cleavage product, C5b, a component of the membrane attack complex, increases susceptibility to Neisserial infections.

(C5 Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

As a result, the gene is often identified as a breast cancer susceptibility gene.

(BRIP1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

She has been doing everything in her power by thinking and talking on the subject, to give greater—what shall I call it? susceptibility to her feelings; which are naturally lively enough.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein (1863 aa, ~208 kDa) is encoded by the human BRCA1 gene.

(Breast Cancer Type 1 Susceptibility Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

A classification of microbiology susceptibility data.

(Microbiology Susceptibility Category, NCI Thesaurus)

The date and time of the microbiology susceptibility data.

(Microbiology Susceptibility Date Time, NCI Thesaurus)

A point in time referring to microbiology susceptibility data.

(Microbiology Susceptibility Timepoint, NCI Thesaurus)

A classification of the finding from a susceptibility test.

(Microbiology Susceptibility Result Category, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A classification of a microbiology susceptibility result.

(Microbiology Susceptibility Result Category, NCI Thesaurus)

Deletions in chromosomes 5 and 7 are associated with susceptibility to this disorder.

(Alkylating Agent-Related Myelodysplastic Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)