susceptibleness

  • 11susceptible — adjective Etymology: Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, past participle of suscipere to take up, admit, from sub , sus up + capere to take more at sub , heave Date: 1605 1. capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation <&#8230; …

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  • 12susceptibly — See susceptibleness. * * * …

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  • 13peril — per·il / per əl/ n 1: exposure to the risk of death, destruction, or loss 2: the cause of a loss (as of property) insured their home against fire, floods, and other peril s compare risk Mer …

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  • 14liability — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Responsibility Nouns 1. liability, liableness, responsibility, possibility, probability, contingency, susceptibility; duty; liabilities, debts (see debt); drawback (see hindrance). See tendency. 2.&#8230; …

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  • 15sensibility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Receptivity Nouns 1. sensibility, sensitivity, sensitiveness; feeling, perceptivity, esthetics; sensation, impression; consciousness (see knowledge); sensorium. 2. (mental sensibility) sensibleness,&#8230; …

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  • 16exposure — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of subjecting to outside influences] Syn. disclosure, betrayal, uncovering, baring, unfolding, display, exhibition, laying open, unmasking, presentation, publication, airing, publicizing, publicity, showing,&#8230; …

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  • 17impressibility — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. susceptibility, impressionability, sentimentality, flexibility, pliancy, plasticity, affectability, tenderness, perceptivity, emotionality, sensitivity, sensitiveness, susceptibleness, sensibility; see also feeling 4 ,&#8230; …

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  • 18irritation — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Sensitivity] Syn. soreness, susceptibility, tenderness, inflammation, excitability, rawness, tenseness, irritability, oversensitiveness, hypersensitivity, oversensitivity, extreme sensibility, susceptibleness; see also&#8230; …

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  • 19susceptibility — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. susceptivity, awareness, perceptivity; see sensitivity 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being laid open to something undesirable or injurious: exposure, liability, openness, susceptibleness, vulnerability …

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  • 20openness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition of being laid open to something undesirable or injurious: exposure, liability, susceptibility, susceptibleness, vulnerability, vulnerableness. See PROTECTION. 2. Ready acceptance of often new&#8230; …

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