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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Susceptible \Sus*cep"ti*ble\, adjective [F., from L. suscipere, susceptum, to take up, to support, undertake, recognize, admit; pref. sus (see {Sub-}) + capere to take. See {Capable}.]
1. Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.
It sheds on souls susceptible of light, The glorious dawn of our eternal day. --Young.
2. Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.
Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts. --Cowper.
I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. --Lamb. -- {Sus*cep"ti*ble*ness}, noun -- {Sus*cep"ti*bly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
susceptible
adjective
1: (often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof" [ant: {unsusceptible}]
2: easily impressed emotionally
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "susceptible": accessible, adaptable, affected, alive to, amenable, answerable for, apt, apt to, aroused, aware, bendable, bending, bright, capable of, clever, cognizant, compliant, conscious, delicate, dependent on, disposed, docile, ductile, educable, elastic, emotionable, exposed, exposed to, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, gullible, impressed, impressible, impressionable, impressive, in danger of, incident to, inclined, influenceable, influenced, instructable, intelligent, liable, liable to, like putty, likely to, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, motivated, movable, naive, naked, naked to, nonimmune, nonresistant, obliged to, obnoxious, open, open to, open-minded, passible, perceptive, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, prone, prone to, quick, ready, ready for, receptive, responsible for, responsive, ripe for instruction, roused, schoolable, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sensitive to, sentient, sequacious, shapable, soft, softhearted, springy, standing to, stirred, suasible, subject, subject to, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptive, susceptive to, swayable, swayed, sympathetic, teachable, tender, tenderhearted, thirsty for knowledge, touched, tractable, tractile, trainable, warmhearted, weak, whippy, willing, willowy, within range of, yielding
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