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Credulous vs Impressionable - What's the difference?

credulous | impressionable |

As adjectives the difference between credulous and impressionable

is that credulous is excessively ready to believe things; gullible while impressionable is being easily influenced (especially of young people).

As a noun impressionable is

an impressionable person.

credulous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Excessively ready to believe things; gullible.
  • (obsolete) Believed too readily.

    • Derived terms

    * credulously * credulousness

    Related terms

    * credulity

    Synonyms

    * naive, unworldly * See also:

    Antonyms

    * incredulous

    References

    * (etymology)

    impressionable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being easily influenced (especially of young people).

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An impressionable person.
  • * 1942 , Frank Gervasi, War Has Seven Faces
    • They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power.

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