impressibility

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Mrs. Denton, an extremely sensitive person, relates an experience which shows how exactly similar the impressibility which may be called normal in contradistinction to that induced by disease.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

The power of generating heat is diminished, and the impressibility to cold is increased, on those portions of the skin usually clothed.

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

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)

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

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)