impressible
English
Adjective
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.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- Capable of creating an impression. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Translations
Capable of being impressed
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References
- impressible in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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