Definition of "suggestibility" [suggestibility]

• Responsiveness or susceptibility to suggestion. (noun)

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• "You take that and mix it with a psychopath, a sociopath or someone suffering from mental illness and add in a dose of rage, the suggestibility is too high."
• "In this respect, even when computers seem to get it right, they're not so much anticipating our desires as exploiting our suggestibility, which is really a marketing coup more than a technological one."
• "Hypnosis is based in a great deal on what is called suggestibility and imaginative involvement and as the article reports, it really is wonderful for stress relief and relaxation as well as hundreds of other issues."