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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. credulousness
  8. carelessness
Noun
  • The earlier series has increasingly strained credulity by having its romance plots hinge on inequalities of gender and class, but seldom of race.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The idea that these two would have a five-minute-or-less breakup conversation, then plop down on the couch and happily embark on an acid trip together, strains credulity a little, even for this bizarre, codependent friend group.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 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
  • There are some politics in Hard Labor, but seasoned with the irony of the worker, rather than the idealism of the intellectual.
    — Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Nora’s time in the office, and the relationships that blossom — and one that withers — over the course of that formative span give shape to this earnest, appealing movie about idealism lost but innocence preserved.
    — Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of idealism
Noun
  • That optimism in Tennessee disappeared during a 2024 season in which Levis struggled with turnovers, sacks and consistency.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Even so, the new regime has expressed optimism about aiding the potential of Pluto, which had been largely neglected for the previous couple of years.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of optimism
Noun
  • Have hypoglycemia unawareness – an absence of warning signs for high blood sugar.
    — Reed Berger-Fleishman, The Conversation, 16 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of unawareness
Noun
  • Hartford has a distinguished tradition of standing against ignorance by supporting public education.
    — Nora Oakes Howard, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The title refers not only to the horror film my protagonist, Maya, is trying to make, but also to the city’s new masters and to those living in a zombified state of willful ignorance.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of ignorance
Noun
  • Her credulousness has actually served Fox as a legal defense, since a person has to know a statement was false or show reckless disregard for the truth in order to be held liable for defamation.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of credulousness
Noun
  • But that drop in intensity quickly veered into carelessness, with the defence failing to assert its composure amid loose passes and hapless communication mix-ups.
    — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Conflicts and tragedies are almost always the result of carelessness or accidents that spiral totally out of control.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of carelessness

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“Impressionability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressionability. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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