persuasibility
(pəsweɪsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ)
[f. next: see -ity.]
The quality of being persuasible; capability of being, or readiness to be, persuaded.
| 1627 Donne Serm. v. 49 When thou shalt have..infused a perswasibility into them and a perswasivenesse into me, by thy Spirit. 1842 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1866) III. 236 Maria Christina miscalculated..on the persuasibility, if I may use the term, of Espartero. 1860 Hawthorne Marb. Faun xxvii. II. 177 The young count's good-nature and easy persuasibility [so ed. 1865; edd. 1871, '79, '84, etc., persuadability] were among his best characteristics. |