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the trait of being easily influenced or harmed- The company tests new employees for susceptibility to workplace hazards.
- I don't drink because members of my family have an increased susceptibility to alcoholism.
- 'Our beloved Madame Flintwinch,' said Rigaud, 'developing all of a sudden a fine susceptibility and spirituality, is right to a marvel.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- The truth was, that while his person had been numbed by the shock, his susceptibility to apprehension kept his agitated mind in unrelieved distress.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- Midnight and noon and dawn and dusk are the hours of danger, susceptibility to the "grahayas"— planetary spirits of malignant character.Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
- Your pride is my pride, and your susceptibilities are mine.Henry James -- Washington Square
- His countrymen in the mass wounded his susceptibilities.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- "Why," he slowly replied, roughening his head more and more, "he is all sentiment, and—and susceptibility, and—and sensibility, and— and imagination.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- The man early discovered White Fang's susceptibility to laughter, and made it a point after painfully tricking him, to laugh at him.Jack London -- White Fang
- To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four, will commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- A sample of his tb survived him, in a culture at the Massachusetts State Lab, where it was being tested for drug susceptibility.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing no doubt.Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
- Did she see him as some healthy nitwit from down below, whose susceptibilities were of the most harmless sort?Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- "Go on, Signor Pastrini," continued Franz, smiling at his friend's susceptibility.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- "Its susceptibility of being produced?" said I. "That is to say, of being destroyed," said Dupin.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter
- They always think their susceptibilities are more important than non-religious.Peter Shaffer -- Equus
- Did you expect us all to sit with downcast eyes out of regard for your susceptibilities?Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
- The excessive physical charm of the Creole had first attracted her, for Edna had a sensuous susceptibility to beauty.Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
- Boys have given me the butterflies before, but I usually have more control over my susceptibility to such mundane movements.Colleen Hoover -- Slammed
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