IMPRESSIONABILITY Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

impressionability

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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

With no way to secure this crucial boundary, Microsoft and its peers are left to erect complicated and ad hoc guardrails designed to rein in the consequences of this incurable gullibility.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026
Their bond — both are outsiders who suffered abuse as children — is one of the few emotional soft spots in the otherwise fast-moving series about America’s rotten power structure, manipulative media and the gullibility of the public.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026

Definition of gullibility

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Fueled by gritty guitars and a bluesy rock swagger, the song channels the music that shaped Twain’s youth while revisiting the confidence, freedom and idealism of adolescence.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 10 July 2026
But that, of course, is not usually, or even often, the actual case, and as her idealism falls by the wayside, the use of violence in pursuit of justice begins to make sense to her.

— Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 6 July 2026

Definition of idealism

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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

For Hevalow, that perspective wasn’t born out of ignorance of the dangers — it was reinforced by surviving them.

— Latif Love July 9, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
What’s interesting in this context is the ignorance portrayed by financial teams with respect to building core strategies.

— Dr. Saheer Nelliparamban, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of ignorance

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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