suggestible

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English suggest

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ibilis

Old French -ibleder.

Middle English -ible

English -ible

English suggestible

From suggest + -ible.

Adjective

suggestible (comparative more suggestible, superlative most suggestible)

1. Susceptible to influence by suggestion; easily swayed.
   • 2012, Anne M. Ridley, Fiona Gabbert, David J. La Rooy, Suggestibility in Legal Contexts, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 1992:

     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).

Derived terms

• autosuggestible
• contrasuggestible
• hypersuggestible
• nonsuggestible
• suggestibility
• suggestibleness
• suggestibly
• unsuggestible

Related terms

• suggestable (“capable of being suggested”)
• suggestive (“tending to suggest”)

Translations

susceptible to influence

• Bulgarian: податлив на внушение (podatliv na vnušenie)
• Catalan: suggestible (ca)
• Dutch: suggestibel (nl)
• French: influençable (fr), suggestible (fr)
• Galician: suxestionábel (gl) m or f
• German: suggestibel, beeinflussbar (de)
• Irish: inmheabhraíoch
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: поводлив (povodliv), податлив (podatliv)
• Portuguese: sugestionável (of a person), sugerível (of an object or thing)
• Romanian: sugestionabil m or n
• Spanish: sugestionable (es) (of a person), sugerible (es) (of an object or thing)

Catalan

Etymology

From the stem of suggestió.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [su.d͡ʒəsˈtib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [su.d͡ʒesˈti.ble]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [su.d͡ʒesˈtib.ble]

Adjective

suggestible m or f (masculine and feminine plural suggestibles)

1. suggestible

Derived terms

• suggestibilitat

Further reading

• “suggestible”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Etymology

From suggestion +‎ -ible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syɡ.ʒɛs.tibl/

Adjective

suggestible (plural suggestibles)

1. suggestible

   La suggestion posthypnotique a augmenté l'adhésion chez les participants hautement suggestibles.

   Posthypnotic suggestion increased adherence in highly suggestible participants.

Coordinate terms

• susceptible

Derived terms

• suggestibilité

Further reading

• “suggestible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012