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 Tuttle, Hudson
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)
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 Tuttle, Hudson
Adam S. Smalley, as told by him, is a fine illustration of impressibility in sleep.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
Unusual personal receptivity or impressibility to malaria may exist, either because of some constitutional idiosyncrasy or of some state the system at the time of exposure.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
