impressibility
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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 W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
Mental impressibility is dependent upon intellectual organs, which feel the influences of mind.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
A moderate degree of impressibility which is almost universal in the South, belongs to more than half in the North.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
Effect of Strong Mental Impression.—A strong mental impression carried into sleep is conducive to impressibility.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
But impressibility does not imply disease, although it may make the system more accessible to slight morbific agencies.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
