impressionability

noun

Definition of impressionabilitynext
as in credulity

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Recent Examples of impressionability Your stepson is a teenage boy, the definition of volatility and impressionability. — James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impressionability
  1. credulity
  2. gullibility
  3. idealism
  4. optimism
  5. unawareness
  6. ignorance
  7. carelessness
  8. obliviousness
Noun
  • Because these stories have to dramatize a search for normalcy, its leads tend to be awkward in ways that strain credulity.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
  • Cape Fear strains credulity a little by making Natalie too easy a mark.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 19 June 2026
Definition of credulity
Noun
  • Members must accommodate themselves to its fictions, with varying mixtures of gullibility and cynicism; followers shown proof that the leader has lied may admire him all the more for his tactical cleverness.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Mason highlights – with levity and humor – how erroneous ideas, gullibility, and blinders can lead even people who should know better down rabbit holes.
    — Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2026
Definition of gullibility
Noun
  • Much of this was done with an American mixture of political self-interest and idealism.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Neptune sextiles Pluto early today, blending idealism with the power to reshape systems, habits, and shared goals.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2026
Definition of idealism
Noun
  • There is plenty of optimism surrounding Middlesbrough heading into the new campaign, while Burnley, another of the clubs relegated from the Premier League last season, are fourth favourites for both the title and promotion.
    — Dean Jones, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Powell settlement in January created a sense of optimism that more cases would be resolved, and quickly.
    — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of optimism
Noun
  • Black enrollees reported the highest rate of unawareness of work requirements at 62%, compared to 56% among White enrollees and 54% among Hispanic enrollees.
    — Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • At the same time, Weinberger added, the greatest treatment obstacle is patients not taking their medications — sometimes due to anosognosia, the unawareness of being ill, which affects 50% to 98% of people with schizophrenia.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Definition of unawareness
Noun
  • The age of the activists has drawn comments, even from government officials, that youth equates to naivety and ignorance.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • In the first season, he was met with resistance on all fronts to his unorthodox methods of coaching, his ignorance of the sport, his sheer Americanness.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of ignorance
Noun
  • It gets filed alongside carelessness, disorganization and not really trying, and the people who display it often apologize for it as though they’d been caught slacking.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Either this is an issue of carelessness or a lack of communication between you and the cleaning service.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of carelessness
Noun
  • Feel-good party music is usually rooted in escapism, or simple obliviousness, while socially conscious art tends toward the bleak, especially these days.
    — Will Lynch, Pitchfork, 11 May 2026
  • His obliviousness is what’s also somewhat endearing but also what’s grounding.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
Definition of obliviousness

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“Impressionability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressionability. Accessed 14 Aug. 2026.

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