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Susceptibility vs Hypersusceptible - What's the difference?

susceptibility | hypersusceptible |

As a noun susceptibility

is the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability.

As an adjective hypersusceptible is

(medicine) extremely susceptible; having an elevated susceptibility.

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).

    • hypersusceptible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine) Extremely susceptible; having an elevated susceptibility
  • * {{quote-book, 1921, Charles Edward Marshall, Microbiology citation
    • , passage=Animals injected, as described above, may be rendered hypersusceptible to all bacterial proteins. }}

    Derived terms

    * hypersusceptibility