susceptive

[ suh-sep-tiv ]

adjective

1. receptive.
2. susceptible.

susceptive

/ ˌsʌsɛpˈtɪvɪtɪ; səˈsɛptɪv /

adjective

1. another word for receptive
2. a variant of susceptible

Derived Forms

• susceptivity, noun

Other Words From

• sus·cep·tiv·i·ty [suhs-ep-, tiv, -i-tee], sus·ceptive·ness noun
• nonsus·ceptive adjective
• nonsus·ceptive·ness noun
• nonsus·cep·tivi·ty noun
• unsus·ceptive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of susceptive¹

1545–55; < Late Latin susceptīvus, equivalent to suscept ( us ) ( susceptible ) + -īvus -ive

Example Sentences

“We live in an era where politics overtakes analytics, and while the court is less susceptive, it’s not impervious to that,” Amar said.

From Washington Post

Plato and Pythagoras and Xenocrates and Chrysippus, following the ancient theologians, say that d�mons are stronger than men and far excel us in their natural endowment; but the divine element in them is not unmixed nor undiluted, but partakes of the soul's nature and the body's sense-perception, and is susceptive of pleasure and pain, while the passions which attend these mutations affect them, some of them more and others less.

From Project Gutenberg

He is quiet and thoughtful: it is true it costs some trouble to kindle him up to the point of clear utterance; but probably there never was any one more susceptive of the work of other people.

From Project Gutenberg

The assembled company seeming disinclined to respond, she repeated her inquiry to Collier Pratt himself, as with the susceptive grace that characterized all his movements, he swung the compress he was carrying sharply to and fro to preserve its temperature in transit.

From Project Gutenberg

But we are also persuaded, that as mere men, and out of this seat of rigorous justice, you are susceptive of the tender passions, and too humane not to commiserate the unhappy situation of those, whom the law sometimes, perhaps—exacts—from you to pronounce upon.

From Project Gutenberg