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Impressionable vs Responsive - What's the difference?

impressionable | responsive |

As adjectives the difference between impressionable and responsive

is that impressionable is being easily influenced (especially of young people) while responsive is answering, replying or responding.

As a noun impressionable

is an impressionable person.

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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    responsive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Answering, replying or responding.
  • Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
  • Using antiphons; antiphonal.
  • Susceptible to the feelings of others.
  • (obsolete) Suited to something else; correspondent.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
  • (obsolete) responsible
    • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Antonyms

    * nonresponsive * unresponsive

    Derived terms

    * responsively * responsiveness * responsorial ----