impresión

/impɾeˈsjon/ · B1 · noun · f

impression

🖨️ im- + presión: something pressed into you, onto paper or into your mind

From Latin impressio, from imprimere, to press into. A printer presses ink onto paper, and a strong event presses a mark onto you. That gives all three meanings: print, impression, and shock. Like all -ión nouns, it is feminine: la impresión.

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