Antonyms for impressionability
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : im-presh-uh-nuh-buhl, -presh-nuh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈprɛʃ ə nə bəl, -ˈprɛʃ nə- |
Definition of impressionability
Origin :- 1836, formed on French model, from impression + -able. Earlier was impressible (1620s).
- As in sensitivity : noun responsiveness to stimuli
- As in impressibility : noun susceptibility
- As in sensitiveness : noun sensitivity
- If there are qualities common to all they are impressionability and capacity for affection.
- Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy
- Harriet P's impressionability was put to a very useful purpose.
- Extract from : « The Divining Rod » by Charles Latimer
- It will depend on the size of the calculus, on the point where impacted, and on the impressionability of the subject.
- Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
- He was not only sensitive, he was just come to the passion and impressionability of full-blooded young manhood.
- Extract from : « The Eagle's Heart » by Hamlin Garland
- I kept glancing at the faces of the dead cautiously, distrusting my impressionability.
- Extract from : « Short Stories » by Fiodor Dostoievski
- Well, my impressionability towards music has very much lessened.
- Extract from : « Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916 » by Olga Metchnikoff
- Impressionability is one of the conditions of the creative faculty: the sensitive mind is the only mind that invents.
- Extract from : « Ponkapog Papers » by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- What corresponds in it to the sensibility of the animal is the impressionability, quite of its kind, of its chlorophyl light.
- Extract from : « Creative Evolution » by Henri Bergson
- Some things were imparted to her without her asking or wishing, and merely in virtue of her youth and impressionability.
- Extract from : « Ragged Lady, Complete » by William Dean Howells
- When one has lived here for years and years, one's impressionability gets hardened.
- Extract from : « Cape of Storms » by Percival Pollard
Synonyms for impressionability
- acuteness
- affectability
- affectibility
- awareness
- consciousness
- delicacy
- emotionality
- feeling
- flexibility
- impressionability
- nervousness
- perceptivity
- plasticity
- pliancy
- reactiveness
- reactivity
- receptiveness
- sensation
- sense
- sensibility
- sensitiveness
- sensitivity
- sentimentality
- subtlety
- susceptibility
- susceptibleness
- sympathy
- tenderness
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