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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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What's the difference between ''persuasible'' and ''persuadable''?

Hi!

I was wondering about the difference between the word ''persuasible'' and the word ''persuadable'', l realise that both have the same meaning, but there must be a slight difference between them, right?
  

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I don't detect any difference in meaning. The difference I would look to is whether one word is more common. The usual recourse, Google Ngrams, suggests that there was a brief vogue for "persuasible" that has now passed.

— GPY

  • I don't detect any difference in meaning.
  • The difference I would look to is whether one word is more common.
  • The usual recourse, Google Ngrams, suggests that there was a brief vogue for "persuasible" that has now passed.
  • content=persuasible%2Cpersuadable&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3 By the way ...
  • a very nit-picky comment.
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I don't detect any difference in meaning. The difference I would look to is whether one word is more common. The usual recourse, Google Ngrams, suggests that there was a brief vogue for "persuasible" that has now passed.

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