impressibility
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The power of generating heat is diminished, and the impressibility to cold is increased, on those portions of the skin usually clothed.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
What dims and deadens the impressibility of most men, had rendered his not only more acute and fresh, but more tributary to calm satisfaction, and pure enjoyment.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
What is Clairvoyance?—Clairvoyance is a peculiar state of impressibility, presenting gradations from semi-consciousness to profound and death-like trance.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
It may have all degrees of acuteness, from impressibility scarcely distinguishable from the individual’s own thoughts, to the purest independent clairvoyance.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
When this is revealed, and mystery removed, the subject allies itself with other phenomena of mind, having their origin in impressibility.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
