impressibility

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Mental and nervous impressibility being dependent upon these organs, it follows that a large development of the front lobe favors Impressibility, and that the occipital organs tend to diminish it.

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

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

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

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

Annette had always tried to subject everything to critical analysis: Martella was merely artless impressibility.

From Waldfried A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold