impressibility

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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 Tuttle, Hudson

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 Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

What dims and deadens the impressibility of most men, had rendered his not only more acute and fresh, but more tributary to calm satisfaction, and pure enjoyment.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

Spurzheim failed, but covered the ground incorrectly, and it was many years after I discovered cerebral impressibility before I attained a satisfactory view of the psychology of this region.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

Catullus is one of the great poets of the world, not so much through vividness of imagination as through his singleness of nature, his vivid impressibility, and his keen perception.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund