persuadability
- noun
- /pərˌswādəˈbility/
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persuabilidad
- 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.
Academic text (2007) -
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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7.1
A state of being easily affected or harmed by something
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7.7
Believing things too easily and getting tricked
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8.2
A tendency to be easily influenced by other people's ideas or opinions
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A tendency to believe things too easily so people can trick you
How easily a person accepts other people's ideas
The quality of being easily managed or persuaded
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 tendency to be easily influenced by other people or things that happen
A willingness to accept new ideas and feedback
Willingness to follow instructions and accept guidance
Antonyms
How Persuadable
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.