susceptibleness

To console his wounded susceptibleness, he determined to smoke a pipe and, having made up his mind, found the long clay stem was broken.

These were followed by a general agitation of her point of view necessitating an outlet for her revived susceptibleness to emotion.

The explanation of this extreme susceptibleness must be left to psychologists; but I am convinced that we have here a case of transferred aesthetic sensibility.

He was conversational too, and inclined to quote poetry—this sort of susceptibleness often affects gentlemen after they have had an excellent dinner flavored with the finest Burgundy.