impressionable
adjective
easily impressed or influenced; susceptible.
impressionableness
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a word derived from
impressionable.
Example Sentences
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She had immediately sung her way into the hearts of Berlin music-lovers, provided that you care to call a mixture of snobbishness, sophisticated impressionableness and goose-like imitativeness—heart.
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Ludwig Lewisohn
Obstinate, with his dogged determination and stubborn common-sense, and Pliable with his shallow impressionableness, are among our acquaintances.
From The Life of John Bunyan by Edmund Venables
His impressionableness was of the valuable positive kind, which adds and assimilates new elements from many quarters, without disturbing the organic structure of the whole.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography by John Morley
Few, if any, even of those she had spent her life among, knew Jacinth Mildmay thoroughly, or had any suspicion of the impressionableness, the almost fantastic imagination, hidden under her quiet, almost cold exterior.
From Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls by Robert Barnes
Arthur's gallant, and he's impressionable—but he's fastidious, and fastidiousness is always the check on impressionableness.
From Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
