impressibility
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Catullus is one of the great poets of the world, not so much through gifts of imagination—though with these he was well endowed—as through his singleness of nature, his vivid impressibility, and his keen perception.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
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 Calvin Cutter
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
"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 Henry Morford
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 John Oliver Hobbes
