MEANING
A tendency to be strongly influenced by other people, experiences, or suggestions.
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Words that belong together
- youthful impressionability
- heightened impressionability
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Her impressionability made the charismatic lecturer's approval unusually important.
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Word forms
- Base
- impressionability
Usage notes
Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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