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impressibility|ɪmprɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ|
Also -ability.
[f. next: see -ity.]
The quality of being impressible.
1751tr. Pernetti's Philos. Lett. Physiog. xxxiii. 229 They [blue eyes] are sure Signs of a tender Impressibility and sympathising Disposition. 1811W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXV. 12 When the change of scene had restored the impressability (may we call it?) of his senses [etc.]. 1860W. Collins Wom. White (1861) 135 She seems to have parted with all her tenderness and all her impressibility. 1875Jevons Money v. 40 Impressibility,..the capacity of a substance to receive such an impression..as shall establish its character as current money.
b. A specimen or example of the impressible.
1820Examiner No. 642. 495/1 [They] are all that fairy land can do for us. They are for younger impressibilities. |