susceptibility

susceptibilité, vulnérabilité

Tendance à être facilement affecté ou abîmé par quelque chose.

En anglais simple : The tendency to be easily affected or harmed by something.

• Poor sleep increases susceptibility to infection.
• The study measured susceptibility to stress.
• Genes may influence a person’s susceptibility to certain diseases.

Comment l'utiliser : susceptibility to something (Smoking increases susceptibility to lung disease.)

Synonymes : vulnerability, sensitivity

Contraires : resistance

Expressions courantes : susceptibility to disease, increased susceptibility, genetic susceptibility

prédisposition, vulnérabilité

Faiblesse précise qui rend une personne ou une chose facile à affecter ou à endommager.

En anglais simple : A particular weakness that makes someone or something easy to affect or harm.

• The test revealed an inherited susceptibility to infection.
• Doctors considered her individual susceptibilities before choosing treatment.
• Each variety has a different susceptibility to disease.

Comment l'utiliser : a susceptibility to something (He has a particular susceptibility to chest infections.)

Synonymes : vulnerability, weakness

Expressions courantes : individual susceptibility, inherited susceptibility, particular susceptibility

sensibilité, susceptibilité

Tendance à éprouver des émotions fortes ou à se vexer facilement.

En anglais simple : The tendency to have strong feelings or be easily upset.

• Her emotional susceptibility made criticism painful.
• He tried not to offend their susceptibilities.
• The joke hurt his delicate susceptibilities.

Synonymes : sensitivity, sensitiveness

Contraires : insensitivity

Expressions courantes : emotional susceptibility, delicate susceptibilities, hurt someone’s susceptibilities

susceptibilité électrique

Mesure de la facilité avec laquelle un champ électrique déplace les charges positives et négatives dans un matériau.

En anglais simple : A measure of how easily an electric field shifts positive and negative charges within a material.

• The material has a high electric susceptibility.
• We measured the susceptibility of the sample.
• Its susceptibility changes with temperature.

Synonymes : electric susceptibility

Expressions courantes : electric susceptibility, dielectric susceptibility