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Susceptibility vs Exposure - What's the difference?

susceptibility | exposure |

As nouns the difference between susceptibility and exposure

is that susceptibility is the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability while exposure is (senseid)(uncountable) the condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.

susceptibility

English

Noun

(susceptibilities)
  • 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).
  • exposure

    Noun

  • (senseid)(uncountable) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • (countable, uncountable) That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view.
  • (uncountable) Lack of protection from weather or the elements.
  • * 1993 , (Paul Chadwick), The Ugly Boy , Dark Horse Books
  • As all of you know, a great tragedy occurred yesterday. Arthur Harcourt died of exposure sometimes in the morning in the woods off Mount Tom Road.
  • (senseid)(photography) An instance of taking a photograph.
  • (photography) The piece of film exposed to light.
  • (photography) Details of the time and f-number used.
  • (gardening) The amount of sun, wind etc. experienced by a particular site.
  • Derived terms

    * double exposure * multiple exposure * time exposure