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susceptibility
Synonyms and Antonyms 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 naiveté); credulity, credulousness Near Antonyms immunity; impenetrability, indomitability, indomitableness, invincibility Antonyms invulnerability
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