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The first one takes seconds to form and decades to unstick.
means A mark, effect, or feeling left on someone or something — whether the belief you form about a person, the imprint pressed into a surface, or an imitation done for a laugh.
from From Latin imprimere, "to press into," built from in- ("upon") plus premere ("to press") — the same press that gives us print and express. The earliest sense was literal: a seal pushed into wax, a stamp driven into metal. The figurative leap — a mark pressed not into wax but into the mind — followed naturally, which is why a first impression still feels like something stamped on you.
- snap judgment
- Faces get judged for trustworthiness in 100 milliseconds
- printing roots
- Word once meant ink pressed onto paper
- comedy craft
- Impressionists exaggerate vowels, not whole voices
- sticky bias
- First impressions resist correction even when proven wrong
- ad metric
- Online, one view counts as one impression
monet water lilies series — claude monet painted 250+ water lily canvases from his giverny garden, 1897-1926
impression sunrise — monet's 1872 painting of le havre harbor that named the impressionist movement