impressionability

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impressionability
Noun
  • The plot beats that follow Dante’s death strain credulity past its breaking point, and the fun quickly wears thin.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 May 2025
  • That the leader of a notoriously cruel occupying power would have shown such compassion for a militant rebel strains credulity and defies the historical record.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Heiss felt toward the relationship between them a kind of atavistic idealism, which connected the experience to relationships between the Greek erastes and eromenos.
    Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
  • Through deeply human storytelling, the series transcends its historical setting to explore universal themes of violence, trauma, idealism, and the moral ambiguities of political conflict.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Zaslav also reiterated his optimism around the packaging and marketing of streaming products together, not least to reduce churn and boost engagement.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
  • One of the most significant themes in his work, obviously, is that of the American Dream, which is an autobiographical reflection, but also profound commentary on the American Dream itself, both the optimism and the aspirations, but also the challenges and the contradictions.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Trump’s disdain for classic neoliberal U.S. soft power — and for the values and institutions that uphold it — is likely to hurt American interests in just the same way his tariff regime and utter ignorance of real-world trade theory do.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2025
  • The pathos here thus depends largely on the reader’s total ignorance of Vietnamese.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025
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“Impressionability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressionability. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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