impressionability

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  1. The quality of being impressionable; susceptibility to impressions; great sensibility. Our difference of wit appears to be only a difference of impressionability, or power to appreciate faint, fainter, and infinitely faintest voices and visions. Emerson, Success.

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  • This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. —  The Great Gatsby / by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The horrible life I had been leading for many a day and night had produced a great impressionability, and I was particularly afraid of my father in the night-time, so I started up in bed with the idea that he was come to beat me, when lo! —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • There the intense impressionability which the little peasant of Aveyron received at birth could only be confirmed and increased. —  Fabre, Poet of Science
  • That approach applies to young people as well, though they emphasize their sensitivity to young readers 'impressionability. —  Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories
  • The Golfweek rankings were based on routing, feature shaping, natural setting, greens, variety, conditioning and maintenance, landscape management, overall impressionability and other criteria.
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