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Formative vs Impressionable - What's the difference?

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Formative is a synonym of impressionable.


As adjectives the difference between formative and impressionable

is that formative is of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something while impressionable is being easily influenced (especially of young people).

As nouns the difference between formative and impressionable

is that formative is (grammar) a language unit that has morphological function while impressionable is an impressionable person.

formative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
  • My formative years were spent in an inner city.
  • Capable of forming something.
  • (biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
  • (grammar) Pertaining to the inflection of words.
  • Derived terms

    * formativeness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) A language unit that has morphological function.
  • ----

    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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