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impressionable, a.|ɪmˈprɛʃənəb(ə)l|
[a. F. impressionnable, f. impressionner: see -able.]
1. Of persons or their feelings: Liable to be easily impressed or influenced; susceptible of impressions.
[1835New Monthly Mag. XLIV. 426 A nature which must be what the French so happily term impressionable.] 1836T. Hook G. Gurney (L.), She had a pretty face and an impressionable disposition. 1848Longfellow in Life (1891) II. 133 He has real merit and quick, impressionable feelings. 1873Black Pr. Thule (1874) 49 Attentions..such as must have driven a more impressionable man out of his senses.
2. Of things:
a. Capable of being impressed.
b. Sensitive to physical or chemical influences.
1878Maxwell in Life xiv. (1882) 455 Tinfoil thin enough to be impressionable by the metal style. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 150 Sensitive or impressionable substances..which receive and retain the actinic energy.
So imˈpressionableness, impressionability.
1858Chamb. Jrnl. IX. 161 A nervous organisation of great delicacy, impressionableness, and excitability. 1881G. Macdonald Mary Marston I. vi. 101 A certain dropsical impressionableness of surface which made him seem and believe himself sympathetic. |