All 3 Uses of
susceptibility
in
The Magic Mountain
- Did she see him as some healthy nitwit from down below, whose susceptibilities were of the most harmless sort?†
Chpt 5.4 *susceptibilities = feelings that are easily hurt
- The major was a broad-shouldered man with a low brow and bristling moustache—a hulk, who quite obviously was innocent of his daughter's susceptibilities and organic biases.†
Chpt 5.8
- He listened to his relative talk about the disease that formed the common professional bond for everyone here, and of people's susceptibility to it; about Hans Castorp's own modest, but chronic case, about how the bacillus irritated the cells of the tissue in the bronchi and air sacs of the lungs, about the formation of tubercles and the production of soluble intoxicating toxins, the deterioration of the cells and the process of caseation, which if it continued to petrify into chalky scar tissue meant a beneficial arrest of the disease, but if it went on to build ever-larger soft foci, created cavities that ate away at everything around them and finally destroyed the entire organ.†
Chpt 6.5susceptibility = the trait of being easily influenced or harmed