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Impressionable vs Determinative - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between impressionable and determinative

is that impressionable is being easily influenced (especially of young people) while determinative is determining deciding something.

As nouns the difference between impressionable and determinative

is that impressionable is an impressionable person while determinative is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.

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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    determinative

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
  • (grammar) A word that typically functions as a determiner in a noun phrase; many also have other functions.determiner in Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP.

    • Synonyms

    (ideogram) taxogram

    Related terms

    * determiner

    See also

    * article * demonstrative

    External links

    * ("determinative" on Wikipedia)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Determining (gloss) something.
  • * 1905 January 21, Ch. Kent, opinion, New York Foundling Hospital ''v.'' Gatti'', Arizona [Territorial] Supreme Court, as reported in, 1907, ''The Lawyers Reports Annotated , new series, volume 7, page 313 [http://books.google.com/books?id=N6m2AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA313&dq=determinative]:
    • This proceeding, though not presenting questions difficult of determination, or points of law that are novel, is unusual in many of its features, and is important as determinative of the disposition and welfare of a number of little children, ignorant of the contest that is being carried on in regard to them.
  • * 2009 July, , Financial Instruments , ISBN 9781905590698, page 617 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nwV-hbTHxeMC&pg=PA617&dq=determinative]:
    • An entity does not automatically conclude that any observed transaction price is determinative of fair value.

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