Preference vs Susceptibility - What's the difference?
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The selection of one thing or person over others.
The option to so select, and the one selected.
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A strong liking or personal valuation.
A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.
(US) To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability
emotional sensitivity
(physics) electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).
Preference is a related term of susceptibility.
As nouns the difference between preference and susceptibility
is that preference is preference while susceptibility is the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability.preference
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(wikipedia preference)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(Preferans) (en noun)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}
