impressionableadj.
/ɪmˈprɛʃənəb(ə)l/ 1. Of persons or their feelings: Liable to be easily impressed or influenced; susceptible of impressions.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > [adjective]
passiblec1384
susceptive1577
impressive1593
waxy1594
eath1596
impressible1626
mutual1657
responsive1657
open1672
susceptible1709
unsteeled1744
unblunted1775
sensate1788
affectible1796
tangible1813
suscipient1815
impressionable1833
impressional1860
unseared1860
reachable1873
passionful1902
the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > [adjective] > open to suggestion
impressible1626
impressionable1833
suggestible1890
1833 Foreign Q. Rev. 11 285 The ‘continually virtuous’ Tyrant found Diderot ‘extremely impressionable’.
1848 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) II. 133 He has real merit and quick, impressionable feelings.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule iv. 56 Attentions..such as must have driven a more impressionable man out of his senses.
2. Of things:
a. Capable of being impressed.
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society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > [adjective] > capable of being
impressionable1878
1878 Maxwell in Life (1882) xiv. 455 Tinfoil thin enough to be impressionable by the metal style.
b. Sensitive to physical or chemical influences.
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the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > able or liable to be affected
subjectablea1382
subject1549
occurrent1566
obnoxious1572
prostitute1591
liable1593
incident1603
patible1603
susceptible1605
obvious1609
recipient1610
affectable1611
susceptive1637
receptivea1676
ticklish1681
subjectiblea1732
vacant1751
timid1764
susceptible1883
impressionable1889
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 150 Sensitive or impressionable substances..which receive and retain the actinic energy.
Derivatives
imˈpressionableness n. impressionability.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > [noun]
sufferancec1374
passibilitya1398
passibleness?a1425
sense1536
resentment1640
impressiveness1663
impressibility1751
susceptibility1782
responsiveness1791
impressionability1835
affectability1836
affectivity1854
responsivitya1856
impressionableness1858
suscipiency1885
1858 Chambers's Jrnl. 9 161 A nervous organisation of great delicacy, impressionableness, and excitability.
1881 G. MacDonald Mary Marston I. vi. 101 A certain dropsical impressionableness of surface which made him seem and believe himself sympathetic.
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