Adjective : insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection. From Dictionary.com.
Perhaps the easiest way to parse the Form's insusceptibility to appearing unequal is to treat the claim as implying that the Form cannot appear other than itself, i.e., equal. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
The insusceptibility of young children may relate to their insufficient grasp of language you must understand what the hypnotist is saying to you, or to any of a number of other factors. From Wordnik.com. [The Muse in the Machine] Reference
Yet it is not untrue to say that variations in children, dependent upon heredity, show chiefly in the relative susceptibility or insusceptibility of the child to the influences of environment and management. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
For one kind is a potency of being acted on, i.e. the originative source, in the very thing acted on, of its being passively changed by another thing or by itself qua other; and another kind is a state of insusceptibility to change for the worse and to destruction by another thing or by the thing itself qua other by virtue of an originative source of change. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
Dr. Deléarde conceived the idea of experimenting with those diseases in which it has been found possible to produce, artificially, as it were, and under controlled conditions, an immunity or insusceptibility in healthy animals. From Wordnik.com. [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference
The reader should be here apprized, that the words strength and debility, when applied to animal motions, may properly express the quantity of resistance such motions may overcome; but that, when they are applied to mean the susceptibility or insusceptibility of animal fibres to motion, they become metaphorical terms; as in Sect. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
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