impressible
adjective
capable of being impressed; impressionable.
impressibility
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a word derived from
impressible.
Example Sentences
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Instead of being placed in the purely intellectual region adjacent to calculation, order, and system, it is carried back and down into the region of somnolence and sensitive impressibility.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
Adam S. Smalley, as told by him, is a fine illustration of impressibility in sleep.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
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
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
Spurzheim failed, but covered the ground incorrectly, and it was many years after I discovered cerebral impressibility before I attained a satisfactory view of the psychology of this region.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
