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Impressible vs Impressionable - What's the difference?

impressible | impressionable |

As adjectives the difference between impressible and impressionable

is that impressible is capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression while impressionable is being easily influenced (especially of young people).

As a noun impressionable is

an impressionable person.

impressible

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression.

    • Related terms

    * impressibility * impressibleness * impressibly

    Anagrams

    * permissible

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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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