impressibility

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Mrs. Denton, an extremely sensitive person, relates an experience which shows how exactly similar the impressibility which may be called normal in contradistinction to that induced by disease.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

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

Adam S. Smalley, as told by him, is a fine illustration of impressibility in sleep.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

"The omens are all good," said Josephine, who really had in her nature a shade of impressibility, if not of superstition.

From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Morford, Henry

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