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impressible en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *per-? Proto-Indo-European *pres-der. Proto-Italic *pres- Latin premō Latin imprimō Latin impressusder. Middle English impressen English impress Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English impressible From impress + -ible.

Meanings

  1. Capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression.
    • 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:
  2. Capable of being imprinted upon.
    • 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 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. 1651, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum:
  3. Capable of creating an impression.

Deriveds

unimpressible

Relateds

impressibleness · impressibility · impressibly

Translations (1)

bg впечатлителен (Capable of being impressed)