impressionability

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impressionability
Noun
  • Yet worse than credulity — or perhaps just its flip side — is cynicism.
    David Nurenberg, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Despite a rocky use of the miscommunication trope the stretches credulity slightly, the novel celebrates love stories and the possibility of magic made real.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Cheering for such idealism used to feel corny; all the cool, caped crusaders had ethical kinks.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
  • Yet he is also preoccupied with instilling a sense of idealism and conviction in both the party and the rest of the Chinese population.
    JOSEPH TORIGIAN, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • But in an exchange before reporters before the dinner got underway, both leaders expressed optimism that their success in Iran would mark a new era in the Middle East.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 8 July 2025
  • If the Western frontier defined American optimism in the 19th century, the suburban frontier defined it in the 20th.
    Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Those who get their disinformation from Fox, One America News Network and Newsmax will remain clueless and continue to suffer the consequences of their ignorance.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2025
  • This experiment in willful ignorance can only end poorly.
    Ben Santer, Scientific American, 4 July 2025
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“Impressionability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressionability. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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