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suggestible, a.|səˈdʒɛstɪb(ə)l|
[f. suggest v. + -ible.]
1. Capable of being influenced by (hypnotic or other) suggestion.
1890Open Court 10 Apr. 2197/2 Great masses of people are for several reasons extremely suggestible. 1891Monist I. 627 She is..extremely suggestible, and very easily hypnotised. 1898A. Lang Making Relig. iii. 61 Known savages..are more ‘suggestible’ than educated Europeans. 1903W. James in Harvard Monthly Mar. 6 There is no test..by which, if a title or decoration, a public badge or mark, were to be won by it, some weakly suggestible or hauntable persons would not feel challenged. 1908W. McDougall Introd. Social Psychol. iv. 100 Children are..inevitably suggestible..because of their lack of knowledge and lack of systematic organisation of such knowledge as they have. 1921Discovery Nov. 294/1 Children are more suggestible than grown persons, and women are more suggestible than men. 1955Times 17 May 3/3 Orchestras being suggestible by professional training cannot wholly eliminate from their playing the implications of a conductor's gestures. 1981F. Hoyle Ice ii. 39 He is very suggestible; if he is told he is stupid, he thinks he is stupid and behaves accordingly.
2. That can be suggested.
1905W. H. Mallock Reconstr. Belief ii. vii. 134 That civilised human life loses all meaning without it [sc. the religion of theism], and that no suggestible substitute is able to take its place. |