impressibility
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Her restored good humor, her splendid beauty, and Mr. Owen's impressibility and generosity sufficiently cover the ground.
From The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry
But impressibility does not imply disease, although it may make the system more accessible to slight morbific agencies.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
It may have all degrees of acuteness, from impressibility scarcely distinguishable from the individual’s own thoughts, to the purest independent clairvoyance.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
Thus where the laws and conditions of impressibility are understood, it is not anomalous that so few are impressed, but this fact confirms the theory of sensitiveness.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
Spurzheim failed, but covered the ground incorrectly, and it was many years after I discovered cerebral impressibility before I attained a satisfactory view of the psychology of this region.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)