impressibility
Example Sentences
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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
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 Sellar, W. Y.
Spurzheim failed, but covered the ground incorrectly, and it was many years after I discovered cerebral impressibility before I attained a satisfactory view of the psychology of this region.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
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
