Definition of "impression" []

• An effect, feeling, or image retained as a consequence of experience. (noun)
• A vague notion, remembrance, or belief: I have the impression that we have met once before. (noun)
• A mark produced on a surface by pressure. (noun)
• The act or process of impressing. (noun)
• Printing All the copies of a publication printed at one time from the same set of type. (noun)

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• "And Sextus reports that Arcesilaus also objected to Zeno's conception of belief as assent to an impression, on the ground that assent is a matter of reason or thinking, rather than the acceptance of a non-rational ˜impression™ (M. 7.154)."
• "I think an occasional rest-day is as necessary to the tired brain as the photographer's dark room is to the development of the negative impression -- without it the brain would, indeed, record a "_negative impression_.""
• "– My main impression is that this story could work as an introspective drama (maybe something like a coming-of-age story), but it does not feel like it has much comedic potential."