1. (Physiology) Responsiveness to external stimuli:; SYN. sensitiveness, sensibility.
2. Sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others); SYN. sensitiveness.
3. Susceptibility to a pathogen; SYN. predisposition.
4. The ability to respond to affective changes in one's interpersonal environment; SYN. sensitiveness.
5. The ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences:
6. The ratio of change in transducer output to a change in the value of the measurand.
7. The ability of an organism, or part of an organism, to detect changes in the environment. Although all living things are capable of some sensitivity, evolution has led to the formation of highly complex mechanisms for detecting light, sound, chemicals, and other stimuli. It is essential to an animal's survival that it can process this type of information and make an appropriate response. + prikaži više

ETYM Cf. French susceptibilité.
In physics, ratio of the intensity of magnetization produced in a material to the intensity of the magnetic field to which the material is exposed. It measures the extent to which a material is magnetized by an applied magnetic field. Diamagnetic materials have small negative susceptibilities; paramagnetic materials have small positive susceptibilities; ferromagnetic materials have large positive susceptibilities.
The state of being susceptible; easily affected; SYN. susceptibleness. + prikaži više