Susceptible vs Docile - What's the difference?
susceptible | docile |
likely to be affected by something
easily influenced or tricked; credulous
(medicine) especially sensitive, especially to a stimulus
that, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result
vulnerable; (temporarily) defenseless
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(epidemiology) A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease
* {{quote-book, 1983, , General Microbiology & Immunity, editors=Topley & Wilson
, passage=In either instance a decrease in the number of susceptibles , by making the spread of virus less easy, tends towards a stage at which the infection dies out.}}
Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Ready to accept instruction or direction.
As adjectives the difference between susceptible and docile
is that susceptible is likely to be affected by something while docile is yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.As a noun susceptible
is (epidemiology) a person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease.susceptible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was susceptible to minor ailments.
- Rational numbers are susceptible of description as quotients of two integers.
- A properly prepared surface is susceptible of an enduring paint job.
- The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.
Derived terms
* suscept * susceptibly * susceptibilityNoun
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