susceptibility

susceptibility

noun

Definition of SUSCEPTIBILITY

the quality or state of having little resistance to some outside agent <his aunt's unfortunate susceptibility to viruses meant she was nearly always sick> <a country parson who had a well-known susceptibility to anyone with a hard-luck story>

Synonyms defenselessness, vulnerability, weakness

Related Words helplessness, powerlessness; passiveness, passivity; feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity; exposure, liability, openness, predisposition, proneness, sensitivity; receptiveness, receptivity; easiness, gullibility, naïveté (also naivete or naivet{eacute}); credulity, credulousness

Near Antonyms immunity; impenetrability, indomitability, indomitableness, invincibility

Antonyms invulnerability