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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /səˌsɛptəˈbɪlɪti/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /səˌsɛptəˈbɪləti/, [səˌsɛptəˈbɪləɾi]
• (General Australian) IPA: /səˌseptəˈbɪləti/, [səˌseptəˈbɪləɾi]

名詞

susceptibility (countable and uncountable, plural susceptibilities)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being susceptible; vulnerability.
   • 2015 August 29, “Different Blood Cell-Derived Transcriptome Signatures in Cows Exposed to Vaccination Pre- or Postpartum”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]

2. (countable) A way in which one is susceptible.
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 365:

     It seems that the spiritual fermentation of the cabbalists, who in the sixteenth century established a center in Northern Palestine (Safed) and aroused the dormant susceptibilities of the Orient, penetrated also into Yemen and had the effect of a messianic message to the languishing souls longing for redemption.

3. emotional sensitivity.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Anticipation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 40:

     The eyes were large and black, and had the moonlight's melancholy, with that tearful lustre which is the certain sign of keen susceptibility.

4. (biology, medicine, of a pathogen) Being vulnerable to a treatment (usually an antibiotic or antifungal); also, the degree of such vulnerability (i.e., weak, moderate, or strong).

   Synonym: sensitivity

   Derived terms: susceptibility testing

5. (physics) electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).

反意語

• immunity

派生語