impressibility
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He must have the impressibility of the poetical nature to take in all its scenes, and the vocabulary of an artist to reproduce them.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various
He who is not at all conscious of such impressibility can scarce be amiable or human.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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)
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 Sellar, W. Y.
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