suggestibility
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Psychologist Dr Harry Wood said his assessment of Sullivan had highlighted his "limited intellectual capacity" and "suggestibility", which he said should have led to concerns about his answers in interviews and his apparent confessions.
From BBC • May 13, 2025
“I think you might be more open to suggestibility than you imagine,” he tells her.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2021
The results implied suggestibility may, at least in part, explain mirror synesthesia effects.
From Scientific American • Oct. 21, 2020
When she is working on a book, she exists in a state of heightened suggestibility, as if everything she sees and hears were hers for the taking.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019
The heightened emotionality characteristic of this state bespeaks an increased tendency to outcropping, and so an increased suggestibility.
From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Coué, Emile
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