impressibility
- a word derived from impressible.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Tuttle, Hudson
The nervous force is wasted, and, until an opportunity of repose is afforded to the centre, the faculty of impressibility cannot again revive.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
Superior impressibility is then the result of a superior development of the organs which feel the various impressions.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
