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Impression

noun

A vague idea in which some confidence is placed. Synonyms: belief, feeling, notion, opinion. "What are your feelings about the crisis?" , "It strengthened my belief in his sincerity" , "I had a feeling that she was lying"

An outward appearance. Synonym: effect. "I wanted to create an impression of success" , "She retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting"

A clear and telling mental image. Synonyms: mental picture, picture. "He had no clear picture of himself or his world" , "The events left a permanent impression in his mind"

A concavity in a surface produced by pressing. Synonyms: depression, imprint.

A symbol that is the result of printing or engraving. Synonym: stamp.

All the copies of a work printed at one time. Synonym: printing.

(dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster.

An impressionistic portrayal of a person.

The act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another.

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"Impression" Quotes from Famous Books

... Now, in case all three should be direct reprints, the omitted question and answer evidently were not contained in the first Wittenberg edition either. On the other hand, if only one of them is a direct reprint, the mistake must be charged to the original Wittenberg impression or to the reprint. That the omission is an error, probably due to the printer, appears from the fact that the omitted question and answer were already found on the charts; for the Hamburg book edition of the charts in Low German has them, as ...

— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente

... taken aback by their appearance and air, for his steward had somehow given him the impression that they were thick, red-faced and robustious. He felt that these pleasant-looking young gentlefolk could never have really earned their unfortunate reputation. There must ...

— The Terrible Twins • Edgar Jepson

... whatever he might be doing there scowling at her, she felt at once that he was as foreign as herself to that neighborhood. But there was no time at that moment to analyze her feeling, to formulate her thought. And her next impression, following very swiftly, was one of vague antagonism. She felt that she ...

— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham

... has doubled in bulk; so that when America is mentioned now, two torches flare up in the dark caverns of his mind and he says, "Ah, the country of the great man Washington; and of the Holy City—Chicago." For he knows about the Congress of Religion, and this has enabled him to get an erroneous impression of Chicago. ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... receiving a visit from him; but she was in just that unbalanced state in which almost any impression is welcome. He showed so much interest, first in her health, then in her thoughts and feelings, always following her lead in the conversation, that before he left her she felt as if she had made a great discovery; namely, that this man, so formidable ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

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