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

There exists mobility of humour in direct relation with facile impressionability to external influences or to internal states.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.