impressibility
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What is Clairvoyance?—Clairvoyance is a peculiar state of impressibility, presenting gradations from semi-consciousness to profound and death-like trance.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
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
Catullus is one of the great poets of the world, not so much through gifts of imagination—though with these he was well endowed—as through his singleness of nature, his vivid impressibility, and his keen perception.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
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
He who is not at all conscious of such impressibility can scarce be amiable or human.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
