MEANING
1. Easily affected, influenced, or harmed by something under particular conditions.
2. Able to be interpreted, explained, proved, or dealt with in a particular way.
Use it for
qualifying which groups are vulnerable to an influence; describing a measure that is sensitive to bias; identifying a tendency without claiming an inevitable outcomeDistinguishes vulnerability to influence from the formal possibility of a particular interpretation or treatment. Writing functions: Qualification / Uncertainty, Interpretation, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- susceptible to bias
- susceptible to suggestion
- more susceptible to damage
On the page
Self-reported measures may be susceptible to expectations about what the researcher wants to hear.
The comparison asks why some communities were more susceptible to the same price shock.
The phrase is susceptible of two interpretations, neither of which the next sentence resolves.
Not every historical claim is susceptible to the same kind of experimental test.
Word forms
- Base
- susceptible
Usage notes
Adjective. Susceptible to an influence; susceptible of a treatment or interpretation in formal use. More susceptible and most susceptible are natural. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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