SUSCEPTIBILITY Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

susceptibility

noun

sə-ˌsep-tə-ˈbi-lə-tē

as in vulnerability

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

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Recent Examples of susceptibility All of them have the same susceptibility to certain pests. —

Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2026 What has changed is not human susceptibility but machine competence. —

Deb Roy, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026 There needs to be more careful selection of judges to vet for susceptibility to corruption, and more transparency in how scores are derived. —

Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026 Youngblood had exploited the couples’ susceptibility to suspicion. —

Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for susceptibility

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Noun

Once in a while, black flats compress the space, framing a single character’s face, bathed in a bleaching white light, as if their vulnerabilities were being scanned by an MRI.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
As part of the ongoing probe, the company eliminated the possibility that the leak was caused by a vulnerability in its systems, sources familiar with the situation tell The Hollywood Reporter.

— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026