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

Instead of being placed in the purely intellectual region adjacent to calculation, order, and system, it is carried back and down into the region of somnolence and sensitive impressibility.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

The impressibility of youth is retentive for outward objects, but the inner mood—the sensation and idea which make the mental state—lives unconsciously, and is recognised only in the long process of time.

From Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange by Hobbes, John Oliver

Mental impressibility is dependent upon intellectual organs, which feel the influences of mind.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

This is seen in grief and fear, which diminish, while hope and joy increase the impressibility of this tissue.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin