Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being impressionable; susceptibility to impressions; great sensibility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being impressionable.
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- noun The
quality of being impressionable.
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Examples
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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 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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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 2003
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Such an unfocussed and scatter-gun assault is already pressing sympathetic buttons, and profiting from the usual heavy-footed public relations blundering of the municipal authorities, and the straight-man impressionability of patronizing editorialists.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement Conrad Black 2011
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I'd say the Times is directed at mature readers, not kids ... though I often question the maturity and impressionability of it's target audience.
Poor Representation 2009
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I'd say the Times is directed at mature readers, not kids ... though I often question the maturity and impressionability of it's target audience.
Poor Representation 2009
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They are children at that age where impressionability is at its peak and their vulnerability to influences equally so.
Corrin Varady: All in the Name of National Interest Corrin Varady 2010
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After following these children for more than a decade, King says, I have a lot more respect for the impressionability of the fetus.
Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010
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This impressionability made him a poor political historian but a fabulous bellwether of the mood on the street—specifically, of the mood that Hezbollah was trying to cultivate at any given time.
A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010
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They are children at that age where impressionability is at its peak and their vulnerability to influences equally so.
Corrin Varady: All in the Name of National Interest Corrin Varady 2010
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