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Impressionable vs Shaping - What's the difference?

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Impressionable is a related term of shaping.


As nouns the difference between impressionable and shaping

is that impressionable is an impressionable person while shaping is the action of the verb to shape .

As an adjective impressionable

is being easily influenced (especially of young people).

As a verb shaping is

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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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    shaping

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to shape .
  • * 1996 , Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
    • In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.
  • (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.

    • Verb

    (head)

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