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persuadability.

Noun
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How easily someone can be convinced to accept an idea or take a course of action.

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  • individual persuadability
  • differences in persuadability

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Her persuadability depended less on the speaker's confidence than on the quality of the evidence.

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Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: usually uncountable; no ordinary plural. Writing functions: persuasion, judgment, social influence. Commonness: uncommon. Established English, not a clinical diagnosis.

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