suggestible

adjective

sug·gest·ible səg-ˈje-stə-bəl

sə-ˈje-

Synonyms of suggestible next

: easily influenced by suggestion

suggestibility

səg-ˌje-stə-ˈbi-lə-tē

sə-ˌje-

noun

Example Sentences

The patient was highly suggestible.

Recent Examples on the Web Another example of framing bias is framing user-experience questions in a suggestible way. —

Steven Widen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023 Karen is headstrong and combative, yet besotted and suggestible, feeling erotic pleasure when Henry first asks her to hide his bloodied handgun early in the film. —

Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2020 The process of hypnosis takes several minutes, after Mecci first brings 20 people onstage, runs through exercises, then picks five of the most suggestible. —

Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022 But too often, experts say, suggestible people mistake having one or two symptoms with having the disorder itself. —

Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022 The content is self-perpetuating, too, since the suggestible youth consuming it automatically become disposed to recognize the Hat Man in their own bedrooms. —

Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022 We were told that Russia used these companies to hack the brains of suggestible yokels, and that only wise superintendence of social-media conversation by progressives could save the world from fascism. —

The Editors, National Review, 31 Oct. 2022 For kids who had yet to learn about unconscious minds and suggestible bodies, the device really seemed to move the fingers, rather than the other way around. —

Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2022 But the communications with the dead went by without raising a single goose bump on this suggestible viewer’s skin. —

Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021 See More

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