impressionableness

Knight led her about, and being by this time accustomed to her sudden changes of mood, overlooked the necessity of a cause in regarding the conditions — impressionableness and elasticity.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

Arthur's gallant, and he's impressionable -- but he's fastidious, and fastidiousness is always the check on impressionableness.

Alice Adams 1921

Arthur's gallant, and he's impressionable -- but he's fastidious, and fastidiousness is always the check on impressionableness.

Alice Adams Booth Tarkington 1907

The gentle, stroking delight in this universe that Dr. Holmes took all his days, his contagious gladness in it and approval of it, his impressionableness to its moods -- its Oliver-Wendell ones, -- who really denies in his soul that this capacity of Dr. Holmes to enjoy, this delicate, ceaseless tasting with sense and spirit of the essence of life, was the very substance of his culture?

The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

It proclaimed itself in a quick impressionableness to sound, a delicately-strung ear, and an acute perception of rhythm.

Joseph Haydn Hadden, J Cuthbert 1902

He kept, to the last, his own manner of brooding and creating, within the limits of a poetic impressionableness which instinctively viewed the material world and the life of the soul in substantially similar fashion.

An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900

The latter was a well-nourished, rosy-cheeked lad, with a quick, merry eye, but betraying his intense impressionableness.

The Created Legend Fyodor [pseud.] Sologub 1895

She had immediately sung her way into the hearts of Berlin music-lovers, provided that you care to call a mixture of snobbishness, sophisticated impressionableness and goose-like imitativeness -- heart.

The Indian Lily and Other Stories Hermann Sudermann 1892

Knight led her about, and being by this time accustomed to her sudden changes of mood, overlooked the necessity of a cause in regarding the conditions -- impressionableness and elasticity.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884

This hardness, if one must give the quality a name that only imperfectly describes it, sprang not from any original want of impressionableness or sensibility of nature, but partly from the relentless buffetings which he had to endure at the hands of fortune, and partly from the preponderance which had been given to the rational side of his mind by long habits of sedulous and accurate study.

Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre John Morley 1880