Etymology

impressionability

im·pres·sion·a·bil·i·ty

Today it means: The quality of being impressionable. Full definition →

English impression ← Old French impression ← Latin impressiō
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

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. Latinimpressiō
  11. Old Frenchimpression
  12. Englishimpression
  13. English todayimpressionability

From impression + -ability.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.