persuadability
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- noun
- /pərˌswādəˈbility/
- Her high level of persuadability made it easy for friends to convince her to try new activities.
Examples
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Call lists in field offices, for instance, didn't just list names and numbers; they also ranked names in order of their persuadability, with the campaign's most important priorities first.
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Obama campaign's persuadability score tried to capture not just a voter's current opinion, but how that individual opinion was likely to change after interactions with the campaign.
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The quality of persuadability comes to connote a positively valued ability to be affected, a capacity for change or differentiation.
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The question of the nature and value of persuadability surfaces most explicitly when Wentworth undergoes a change of heart in the wake of Louisa's fall.
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Austen associates a capacity for differentiation with the quality of persuadability, which is ultimately presented, like Nietzsche's passive force, not as a weakness but as a power.
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Wentworth has equated persuadability with "too yielding and indecisive a character," the "worst evil" of which is that "no influence over it can be depended on" (59).
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Before the fall, Wentworth's misunderstanding of persuadability had prevented him from forgiving Anne: "she had used him ill; deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shown a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure."
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The research focused on the persuadability of young voters during the election campaign.
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His persuadability was evident when he quickly changed his opinion after hearing different viewpoints.
Synonyms
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A state of being easily affected or harmed by something
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Believing things too easily and getting tricked
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A tendency to be easily influenced by other people's ideas or opinions
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Willingness to follow instructions and accept guidance
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The quality of being easily managed or persuaded
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A tendency to believe things too easily so people can trick you
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A tendency to be easily influenced by other people or things that happen
How easily a person accepts other people's ideas
Being easy to manage and willing to follow advice
Being easily affected or influenced by something
Being easily influenced by other people's feelings or ideas
A willingness to accept new ideas and feedback
Antonyms
How Persuadable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
persuadability = persuadable (transparent) = persuade + able + ity
Formed by adding the productive nominalizing suffix '-ity' to the adjective 'persuadable' (persuade + -able), producing a clear abstract noun of degree or quality.
Etymology
Persuadability comes from persuade, the same root as persuasion, and this breaks down into per- 'through' and suadere 'to urge'. So, persuadability is how easily someone can be 'urged' or convinced by others.