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How easily something caves — to infection, persuasion, or a well-aimed sad song.
means The degree to which someone or something is liable to be affected, influenced, or overcome by a particular thing.
from From Latin susceptibilis, from suscipere — 'to take up, support, undertake' — itself built from sub- ('up from under') plus capere ('to take, seize'). The original sense was almost physical: something capable of being taken up or received. English borrowed it in that spirit — a susceptible person is one who 'takes up' influence, illness, or emotion readily, as if holding out an open hand.
- origin
- latin for allowing to be taken up
- biology use
- measures how vulnerable you are to disease
- physics use
- how strongly a material magnetizes under a field
- not weakness
- openness and vulnerability are technically cousins