impressibility
Example Sentences
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The power of generating heat is diminished, and the impressibility to cold is increased, on those portions of the skin usually clothed.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin
The grate buty ov a kiss lies in its impulsiveness, and in its impressibility, two pretty big words, but worth the munny.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
He who is not at all conscious of such impressibility can scarce be amiable or human.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
This is seen in grief and fear, which diminish, while hope and joy increase the impressibility of this tissue.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin
In all probability, the power evinced in his description of the siege, and of the utter desolation in which it terminated, is in part owing to the fresh impressibility of his mind at the time.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)
