suggestibility
suggestibility noun: the property of being suggestible.
Noun
suggestibility (countable and uncountable, plural suggestibilities)
- The property of being suggestible.
- Using techniques of character invalidation (i.e. humiliation), shouting to induce feelings of guilt, fear and suggestibility.1992 February 2, H. Askins, “Unthinkable Discrimination”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 5
- In Europe, through his clinical and forensic work, Gisli Gudjonsson noted that some individuals seemed to be more suggestible than others. This approach assumed that suggestibility is a trait and led to the development of a model of interrogative suggestibility (Gudjonsson & Clark, 1986).2012, Anne M. Ridley, Fiona Gabbert, David J. La Rooy, Suggestibility in Legal Contexts, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 1992
Forms of suggestibility
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Words formed from suggestibility
Questions about suggestibility
- What does suggestibility mean?
- Suggestibility means the property of being suggestible.
- What part of speech is suggestibility?
- Suggestibility is a noun.
- What is the plural of suggestibility?
- The plural of suggestibility is suggestibilities.
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