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impressibility

NOUN

susceptibility

Synonyms

WEAK

affectability emotionality flexibility impressionability perceptivity plasticity pliancy sensibility sensitiveness sensitivity sentimentality susceptibleness tenderness

Example Sentences

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Our system of Anthropology relies, for its demonstration, upon human impressibility.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

He must have the impressibility of the poetical nature to take in all its scenes, and the vocabulary of an artist to reproduce them.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various

An enlarged pupil of the eye will be one of the best symptoms, and, in connection with a calm, spiritual, gentle expression of countenance rarely fails to indicate impressibility.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

It is true in practice just to the extent of human impressibility.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

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