Entry Word: susceptibility

Function: noun

Meaning: the quality or state of having little resistance to some outside agent <Carol's unfortunate susceptibility to viruses meant she was nearly always sick> <Stephen had a well-known susceptibility to anyone with a pathetic story>

Synonyms defenselessness, vulnerability, weakness

Related Words helplessness, powerlessness; passiveness, passivity; feebleness, frailness; exposure, liability, openness, sensitivity; receptiveness, receptivity; easiness, gullibility, näiveté (also naivete); credulity, credulousness

Near Antonyms immunity; impenetrability, indomitability, indomitableness, invincibility

Antonyms invulnerability