impressionability
Easily shaped mind
Impressionability is the quality of being easily influenced or affected by outside forces.
A child's impressionability makes early experiences formative.
The word often implies vulnerability—someone whose impressionability leads them to adopt whatever views they encounter lacks critical independence.
Her impressionability made her susceptible to manipulation.
Liability to influence
- suggestibilityReadiness to accept influence
- malleabilityCapacity for deformation without breaking
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- opennessQuality of being accessible
naivety · gullibility · pliability · receptiveness · moldability · persuadability · sensitivity · docility
Life's earliest phase
- adolescenceTeenage developmental stage
- formativeInfluencing development or growth
- youthState of being immature
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
learning · socialization · upbringing · conditioning · parenting · education · mentoring · imprinting
Paid promotional communication
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
- messagingSending written digital communications
- influencePower to affect others
brainwashing · marketing · persuasion · indoctrination · exposure · consumption · viral · trending
susceptibility
Liability to influence
- suggestibilityReadiness to accept influence
- malleabilityCapacity for deformation without breaking
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
openness · naivety · gullibility · pliability · receptiveness · moldability · persuadability · sensitivity · docility · compliance
childhood
Life's earliest phase
- adolescenceTeenage developmental stage
- formativeInfluencing development or growth
- youthState of being immature
maturation · learning · socialization · upbringing · conditioning · parenting · education · mentoring · imprinting · nurture
advertising
Paid promotional communication
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
- messagingSending written digital communications
influence · brainwashing · marketing · persuasion · indoctrination · exposure · consumption · viral · trending · algorithms
- naivetenaivety, naive, innocence, gullible, gullibility
- flexibilitystretch, elastic, bendy, stretchy, bendable
- influenceinfluence, persuasion, sway, clout, leverage
- sensitivitysensitivity, sensitive, hypersensitivity, oversensitivity, hypersensitive
- submissivenesssubmissiveness, docility, meekness, obedience, tractability
- Receptive Traitsopenness, acceptance, willingness, receptiveness, listening
impressionabilityimperviousness
State of being impenetrable
resistance · obstinacy · stubbornness · skepticism · strong-mindedness
impressionabilityinflexibility
Quality of being unbending
rigidity · fixedness · intransigence · immovability · obduracy
impressionabilityinsensibility
Lack of physical sensation
indifference · impassivity · unresponsiveness · stolidity · emotional detachment
impress, impressive, impression, impressed, imprint, unimpressed, impressions, impressionable, impressionist