suggestibility

suggestibility

n.

1. an inclination to readily and uncritically adopt the ideas, beliefs, attitudes, or actions of others.

2. an occasional synonym for hypnotic susceptibility. See primary suggestibility; secondary suggestibility; tertiary suggestibility.

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