Difference between Amenable and Susceptible

What is the difference between Amenable and Susceptible?

Amenable as an adjective is willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions. while Susceptible as an adjective is likely to be affected by something

Amenable

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions. Willing to comply with; agreeable.

Example sentence: Perhaps the people of Twitter are more amenable to your babbling than your immediate family, but that doesn't necessarily make digital communication a beneficial distraction when we have an immediate social environment.

Susceptible

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: likely to be affected by somethingeasily influenced or tricked; credulousespecially sensitive, especially to a stimulus

Example sentence: Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

We hope you now know whether to use Amenable or Susceptible in your sentence.

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