Sample Sentences forsusceptibility (auto-selected)
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The company tests new employees for susceptibility to workplace hazards.susceptibility = the trait of being easily harmed
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I don't drink because members of my family have an increased susceptibility to alcoholism.
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Boukreev's susceptibility to the cold was doubtless greatly exacerbated by the fact that he wasn't using supplemental oxygen; in the absence of gas he simply couldn't stop to wait for slow clients on the summit ridge without courting frostbite and hypothermia.† (source)
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Boys have given me the butterflies before, but I usually have more control over my susceptibility to such mundane movements.† (source)
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susceptibility to her feelings; which are naturally lively enough.† (source)
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Mr. Heathcliff, I believe, had not treated him physically ill; thanks to his fearless nature, which offered no temptation to that course of oppression: he had none of the timid susceptibility that would have given zest to ill-treatment, in Heathcliff's judgment.† (source)
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All the measurements showed us your potentialities, your susceptibility in stress situations, your vulnerabilities, to the point where it became possible for me to know how well you might or might not do in a game, in a given situation.† (source)
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An entire class of susceptibilities, and a gift connected with them—of no great richness or value, but the best I had—was gone from me.† (source)
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After Basteshaw clobbered me I took an oath of unsusceptibility.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsusceptibility means not and reverses the meaning of susceptibility. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Midnight and noon and dawn and dusk are the hours of danger, susceptibility to the "grahayas"— planetary spirits of malignant character.† (source)
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They always think their susceptibilities are more important than non-religious.† (source)
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Nonetheless, the power of suggestion is mighty, her savage bile touched in me some atavistic susceptibility, and as the bus rocked its way out onto the asphalt parking lot at Jones Beach, I found myself brooding blackly on my recent robbery.† (source)
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He is happily at one with all around him, with their superstitions, their groundless panics, the susceptibilities of people whose nerves are always on the stretch; with their fixed idea of talking the least possible about plague and nevertheless talking of it all the time; with their abject terror at the slightest headache, now they know headache to be an early symptom of the disease; and, lastly, with their frayed, irritable sensibility that takes offense at trifling oversights and brings tears to their eyes over the loss of a trouserbutton.† (source)
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The tension of human nerves during noise, danger, and fatigue, makes them prone to any violent emotion and it is only a question of guiding this susceptibility into the right channels.† (source)
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Conway thought it readily forgivable in one so constituted and circumstanced, but he feared it might affront the more delicate susceptibilities of a Chinese.† (source)
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"Go on, Signor Pastrini," continued Franz, smiling at his friend's susceptibility.† (source)
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