different between suggestible vs impressionable

English

Etymology

suggest +? -ible

Adjective

suggestible (comparative more suggestible, superlative most suggestible)

1. Susceptible to influence by suggestion.
   • 2012, Anne M. Ridley, Fiona Gabbert, David J. La Rooy, Suggestibility in Legal Contexts, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 1992:

     In Europe, through his clinical and forensic work, Gisli Gudjonsson noted that some individuals seemed to be more suggestible than others. This approach assumed that suggestibility is a trait and led to the development of a model of interrogative suggestibility (Gudjonsson & Clark, 1986).

Related terms

• suggestibly
• suggestibility

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy?.??s.tibl/

Adjective

suggestible (plural suggestibles)

1. suggestible

Derived terms

• suggestibilité

Coordinate terms

• susceptible

Further reading

• “suggestible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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.