impressionability

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for impressionability
Noun
  • To imagine Israel blindsiding Washington in this most sensitive theater strains credulity.
    Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • All of it — again, apparently done with no warning or prep time for Levy — comes off with bizarre credulity.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And in a world where time is money, conditions are ripe for a perfect storm of greed, deceit, and willful gullibility—all in the hope of getting ahead faster than the rest.
    Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Ignoring the problem of online gullibility felt irresponsible – even negligent.
    Sam Wineburg, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Such breathless idealism sounds otherworldly today.
    Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Mixing political memory with collective portraiture, the Basque-language film explores post-Franco youthful idealism.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This frustration is clear among the public, with few expressing any optimism or excitement for the election when CNN spoke to them on the street earlier this week.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The country’s stocks, meanwhile, are set for their biggest monthly gain since 2018, a surge which Bloomberg tied to optimism over China’s AI advances as well as easing tensions with the US.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This inclination toward solitude appears to stem from underestimating others’ willingness to engage and unawareness of how much of a lift a mere social exchange can provide.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Libraries douse the destructive flames of ignorance.
    Ryan Byrnes, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • An annual spectacle to refute our constant erasure, whether intended or committed in ignorance, from the zeitgeist.
    Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Earhart was a complicated woman, highly skilled as a pilot yet with a tendency toward carelessness.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Disappointing to see talent overshadowed by carelessness.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There is a sort of beautiful obliviousness to Mann’s turn as Liz.
    Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
  • There is total and telling obliviousness to his giant flat-screen television, tuned to the SEC Network and a women’s soccer match between Arkansas and … Notre Dame.
    Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Impressionability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressionability. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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