Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Easily excited to anger; susceptible of strong emotion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.

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  • adjective Excitable; susceptible to strong emotion.

Etymologies

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impassion +‎ -able

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Examples

  • With the lapse of time and the expansion of her world, her impassionable nature vibrated still more extravagantly, at the most subtle stimuli, between the poles of happiness and pain -- which two sensations sometimes seemed to her identical.

    Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

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