Etymology

impressibleness

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Today it means: The state of being impressible; impressibility. Full definition →

English impressible ← Middle English impressen ← Latin impressus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*per-?
  6. Proto-Indo-European*pres-
  7. Proto-Italic*pres-
  8. Latinpremō
  9. Latinimprimō
  10. Latinimpressus
  11. Middle Englishimpressen
  12. Englishimpress
  13. Englishimpressible
  14. English todayimpressibleness

From impressible + -ness.

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