impressibility
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Superior impressibility is then the result of a superior development of the organs which feel the various impressions.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
It may have all degrees of acuteness, from impressibility scarcely distinguishable from the individual’s own thoughts, to the purest independent clairvoyance.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
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
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
Psychrom′etry; Psychrophō′bia, morbid impressibility to cold; Psy′chrophore, a refrigerating instrument like a catheter for cooling the urethra.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
