impressionability
Example Sentences
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Now, teaching students of the same age, she is mindful both of their potential and their impressionability.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2021
Bearing in mind the impressionability of a sleepy child’s psyche and the position of power the reader holds, often it borders on creepy indoctrination.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2016
In the film’s early scenes, Watts’s character seems the very picture of a naïve, wannabe starlet, all can-do gumption crossed with wide-eyed impressionability.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2014
A year later she had a 19-year-old’s impressionability and a summer job as a White House intern.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2012
She was still in a state of highly-wrought impressionability, and every hint of the past sent a lingering tremor along her nerves.
From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
