impressibility
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What dims and deadens the impressibility of most men, had rendered his not only more acute and fresh, but more tributary to calm satisfaction, and pure enjoyment.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
Effect of Strong Mental Impression.—A strong mental impression carried into sleep is conducive to impressibility.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
Psychrom′etry; Psychrophō′bia, morbid impressibility to cold; Psy′chrophore, a refrigerating instrument like a catheter for cooling the urethra.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Superior impressibility is then the result of a superior development of the organs which feel the various impressions.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
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 Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
