susceptibleness

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Sensibility -- N. sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness; moral sensibility; impressibility, affectibility†; susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity†; mobility; vivacity, vivaciousness; tenderness, softness; sentimental, sentimentality; sentimentalism. excitability &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

He was conversational too, and inclined to quote poetry—this sort of susceptibleness often affects gentlemen after they have had an excellent dinner flavored with the finest Burgundy.

From Thelma by Corelli, Marie

These were followed by a general agitation of her point of view necessitating an outlet for her revived susceptibleness to emotion.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

The explanation of this extreme susceptibleness must be left to psychologists; but I am convinced that we have here a case of transferred aesthetic sensibility.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

To console his wounded susceptibleness, he determined to smoke a pipe and, having made up his mind, found the long clay stem was broken.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton