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has two principal meanings, each with its own construction. In the meaning 'likely to be affected by', it is followed by to:

The leopard frog...is particularly susceptible to a kidney carcinoma—Scientific American, 1973

Stinnes had reached that dangerous age when a man was only susceptible to an innocent cutie or to an experienced floozy—Len Deighton, 1984.

When it means 'allowing, admitting of', it is followed by of:

In the late fourteenth century, one finds Wyclif using the word 'nation' (which was susceptible of a wide variety of usages), to denote men who had been bred in England—J. A. F. Thomson, 1992.

It should not be used as a synonym of liable to or prone to:

☒ Fast aircraft with swept-back wings are susceptible to dutch rolls—B. Jackson, 1976.

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adjective

1. Easily imposed on or tricked: credulous, dupable, easy, exploitable, gullible, naive. See wise/foolish.
2. Tending to incur: liable, open, prone, subject, susceptive, vulnerable. See likely/unlikely.
3. Able to receive and respond to external stimuli: impressible, impressionable, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptive. See awareness/unawareness.

adj

Definition: exposed, naive
Antonyms: resistant, resisting, unsusceptible

IN BRIEF: Yielding readily to or capable of. Also: Easily impressed emotionally.

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence. — Carl Jung (1875-1961)

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Readily affected or acted upon; lacking immunity or resistance.

adj

The opposite of immune; having little resistance to disease.

For a list of words related to susceptible, see:

• Submissive, Uncertain, or Tentative

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Common misspelling(s) of susceptible

• suseptible

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - modtagelig, påvirkelig, følsom, sårbar

Nederlands (Dutch)
ontvankelijk, vatbaar, beïnvloedbaar, open voor

Français (French)
adj. - sensible, prédisposé, impressionnable, susceptible de (sout)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - empfänglich, anfällig, beeindruckbar

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - τρωτός, ευάλωτος, ευπαθής, επιδεκτικός, ευεπηρέαστος

Italiano (Italian)
suscettibile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - suscetível

Русский (Russian)
восприимчивый, впечатлительный, влюбчивый, обидчивый, допускающий (что-л.)

Español (Spanish)
adj. - susceptible, predispuesto, propenso, sensible

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - känslig, mottaglig, lättantändlig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
易被感动的, 易动感情的, 易受...影响的, 多情的, 敏感的, 过敏的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 易被感動的, 易動感情的, 易受...影響的, 多情的, 敏感的, 過敏的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 용인하는, 받아들이는, 민감한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 影響されやすい, 感染しやすい, 感じやすい, 許す

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) قابل ل , عرضه ل , حساس, ل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮רגיש, מושפע בקלות, מתרשם בנקל, מתאהב מהר, פגיע ל-, ניתן ל-, בר-, מסוגל‬

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