impressibility
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Catullus is one of the great poets of the world, not so much through vividness of imagination as through his singleness of nature, his vivid impressibility, and his keen perception.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
The nervous force is wasted, and, until an opportunity of repose is afforded to the centre, the faculty of impressibility cannot again revive.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
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 Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
Such methods are limited in their effect in proportion to human impressibility and cannot possibly supersede all use of remedies which reach thousands of cases in which mental operations would be entirely futile.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
Mental and nervous impressibility being dependent upon these organs, it follows that a large development of the front lobe favors Impressibility, and that the occipital organs tend to diminish it.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
