impressible
adjective
capable of being impressed; impressionable.
impressibility
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a word derived from
impressible.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Its close connection with the region of impressibility called Somnolence explains its supreme control over our emotions.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
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
