impressibility
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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 Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
The impressibility of youth is retentive for outward objects, but the inner mood—the sensation and idea which make the mental state—lives unconsciously, and is recognised only in the long process of time.
From Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange by Hobbes, John Oliver
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)
"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
Annette had always tried to subject everything to critical analysis: Martella was merely artless impressibility.
From Waldfried A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
