IMPRESSIONABILITY Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

impressionability

noun

Definition of impressionability

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

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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

Reach out to a teammate about travel plans or a community event, because purpose fires your optimism and keeps everyone moving together.

— Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Oil prices tumbled at the start of the week on optimism that a deal to reopen the strait could be imminent.

— Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 7 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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