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

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
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

Definition of gullibility

Noun

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
Neptune can represent imagination, spirituality, idealism and illusion, while Aries is concerned with selfhood, courage and initiation.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 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

The pro-Trump media’s attitude, though, borders on willful ignorance.

— Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
Schiebinger uses agnotology, a methodological approach that examines how ignorance is produced and maintained, to analyze the making of this scientific ignorance.

— Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 29 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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