impressibility
Example Sentences
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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
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 omens are all good," said Josephine, who really had in her nature a shade of impressibility, if not of superstition.
From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Morford, Henry
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
When this is revealed, and mystery removed, the subject allies itself with other phenomena of mind, having their origin in impressibility.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
