Definition of Suggestible

1. Adjective. Susceptible or responsive to suggestion. "Suggestible young minds"

Similar to: Susceptible
Derivative terms: Suggest, Suggest, Suggest, Suggestibility

Definition of Suggestible

1. Adjective. Susceptible to influence by suggestion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suggestible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suggestible

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sugarpie
sugarplum
sugarplums
sugars
sugartime
sugarwater
sugary
sugescent
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suggested
suggester
suggesters
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suggestibility
suggestible (current term)
suggesting
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suggestio falsi
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Literary usage of Suggestible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Talking Business by John Mantle Clapp, L. N. Andres (1919)
"The Audience Is suggestible Actually, however, the effort of will required ... Every one of them is more suggestible as a part of an audience than he would ..."

2. The History of European Philosophy: An Introductory Book by Walter Taylor Marvin (1917)
"Man becomes less crudely suggestible.—Another prominent difference between the mind of the brute and that of man and between the mind of the savage and that ..."

3. The Psychology of Public Speaking by Walter Dill Scott (1907)
"... are devices available for public speakers by means of which audiences are made suggestible, ie, are rendered uncritical and accept unhesitatingly almost ..."

4. The Semi-insane and the Semi-responsible: (Demifous Et Demiresponsables) by Joseph Grasset (1907)
"Series and continuity from the most responsible to the most suggestible and most irresponsible. 3. Series and continuity from the lowest animal to man, ..."

5. The Semi-insane and the Semi-responsible: (Demifous Et Demiresponsables) by Joseph Grasset (1907)
"Series and continuity from the most responsible to the most suggestible and most irresponsible. 3. Series and continuity from the lowest animal to man, ..."

6. The Semi-insane and the Semi-responsible: (Demifous Et Demiresponsables) by Joseph Grasset (1907)
"Series and continuity from the most responsible to the most suggestible and most irresponsible. 3. Series and continuity from the lowest animal to man, ..."

7. The Unmarried Mother: A Study of Five Hundred Cases by Percy Gamble Kammerer (1918)
"Not only are there individuals who are generally suggestible, but certain well-marked cases who are particularly suggestible to the influence of one ..."

8. Language for Men of Affairs (1919)
"The Audience Is suggestible Actually, however, ... Every one of them is more suggestible as a part of an audience than he would be as an individual. ..."

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