impressible
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]impressible
- Capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- Like other men who have little religion, Mr. Paul Dangerfield had a sort of vague superstition. He was impressible by omens, though he scorned his own weakness, and sneered at, and quizzed it sometimes in the monologues of his ugly solitude.
- Capable of being imprinted upon.
- 1651, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum:
- The differences of impressible and not impressible; figurable and not figurable; mouldable and not mouldable; scissile and not scissile; and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and and uses which men ordinarily practise; but they are all but the effects of some of these causes following, which we will enumerate without applying them, because that would be too long.
- Capable of creating an impression. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Capable of being impressed
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References
[edit]- “impressible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.