susceptible

sus·cep·ti·ble

1. Easily influenced or affected: “She suddenly was too susceptible to her past” (Jimmy Breslin).
2. Likely to be affected: susceptible to colds.
3. Especially sensitive; highly impressionable.
4. Permitting an action to be performed; capable of undergoing: a statement susceptible of proof; a disease susceptible to treatment.

Origin: Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, past participle of suscipere, to receive : sub-, from below; see sub-  + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots.

Related Forms:

• susceptibleness sus·cepˈti·ble·ness noun

• susceptibly sus·cepˈti·bly adverb