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Helplessness vs Impressionable - What's the difference?

helplessness | impressionable |

As nouns the difference between helplessness and impressionable

is that helplessness is the state of being helpless while impressionable is an impressionable person.

As an adjective impressionable is

being easily influenced (especially of young people).

helplessness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state of being helpless.
  • A feeling of inadequacy or impotence.
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  • *:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

    • Synonyms

    * impotence

    See also

    * powerlessness

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    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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