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suggestibility

/ səˌdʒɛstɪˈbɪlɪtɪ /

noun

  1. psychol a state, esp under hypnosis, in which a person will accept the suggestions of another person and act accordingly


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Quite healthy, in fact, and with a low suggestibility rating.

But surely we also know states in which the suggestibility for certain of one's own ideas is abnormally increased.

There was a readiness and suggestibility to respond to rumor or to the least excitant.

Hysteria is a nervous disorder based upon suggestibility, and capable of imitating most known diseases.

A fact, important if true, is the reported lack of suggestibility among the natives of the region.

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