different between impressionable vs shaping

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English shapynge, equivalent to shape +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?p??

Noun

shaping (plural shapings)

1. The action of the verb to shape.
2. (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.

Translations

Verb

shaping

1. present participle of shape

Anagrams

• hasping, pashing, phasing