convinceable

English

Etymology

From convince +‎ -able.

Adjective

convinceable (comparative more convinceable, superlative most convinceable)

1. (rare) Alternative form of convincible
   • 1848 October 7, “Mr. Gilchrist's Orthographical Reform”, in The Monthly Magazine‎^[1], volume 38, part 2, page 216:

     It may be thought that able ought to be changed into ible, especially after g and c soft: as convincible, tangible, &c.; but it seems better to preserve uniformity by writing convinceable, tangeable, or touchable.

   • 1876, John Grote, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals‎^[2], page 483:

     But in truth, reason, in little-thinking and much-acting men, who pass pretty frequently from a youth of utter instability to a maturity of set stiffness, is by no means the ever-living, and therefore ever-open and convinceable thing we seem to think.

   • 1969, Robert J. Ellrich, Rousseau and his reader: the rhetorical situation of the major works:

     The convinceable young man stands in the same relationship to the vicar as the convinceable reader of the Emile to Rousseau.

   • 2010, Albert Ellis, All Out!: An Autobiography, page 469:

     I would suspect that those who are not at all convinced by it have distinct prejudices of their own and are not too convinceable!

Derived terms

• unconvinceable