different between formative vs impressionable

English

Etymology

From Middle French formatif

Adjective

formative (comparative more formative, superlative most formative)

1. Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.

   My formative years were spent in an inner city.

2. Capable of forming something.
3. (biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
4. (grammar) Pertaining to the inflection of words.
5. (education) Denoting forms of assessment used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.

Derived terms

• formatively
• formativeness

See also

• formulative
• informative

Noun

formative (plural formatives)

1. (grammar) A language unit that has morphological function.

Italian

Adjective

formative

1. feminine plural of formativo

Anagrams

• formatevi

English

Etymology

From French impressionnable. See also impressible.

Adjective

impressionable (comparative more impressionable, superlative most impressionable)

1. Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
   • 1908, Elizabeth Strong Worthington, How to Cook Husbands, Library of Alexandria (?ISBN)

     I had never been an impressionable girl as far as men were concerned—I was not an impressionable woman.

   • 2003, Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber, Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender, Greenwood Publishing Group (?ISBN), page 240:

     As a result, Miss Brodie calls on her authority over her "impressionable" students in order to urge them into roles she herself is too afraid to occupy.

   • 2011, Jamie Carlin Watson, Robert Arp, What's Good on TV?: Understanding Ethics Through Television, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN)

     Sages and mothers have long noted that humans, especially young humans, are impressionable. It is supposed that the environment that one inhabits plays a large role in a child's behavioral and moral development.

Translations

Noun

impressionable (plural impressionables)

1. An impressionable person.

References

• impressionable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.