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Definition of Receptivity
1. Noun. Willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas). "Their receptivity to the proposal"
Generic synonyms: Willingness
Derivative terms: Open, Open, Receptive, Receptive, Receptive, Receptive
Definition of Receptivity
1. n. The state or quality of being receptive.
Definition of Receptivity
1. Noun. The state of being receptive ¹
2. Noun. The extent to which something is receptive ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Receptivity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Receptivity
Literary usage of Receptivity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Comparative Electro-physiology: A Physico-physiological Study by Jagadis Chandra Bose (1907)
"... and responsivity—Necessity for distinguishing these— Advantagesof the Method
of Balance — Simultaneous comparison of variations of receptivity, ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Sense in its passive capacity is called receptivity; for it receives the variety or
... As the receptivity of sense receives objects, the parts of which are ..."
3. The Christian Science Journal by Mary Baker Eddy (1906)
"receptivity TO TRUTH. JOHN L. KENDALL. THE question is sometimes asked, Why is
it that some persons are healed by Christian Science treatment so much more ..."
4. Protecting Children in Substance-Abusing Families by Vickie Kropenske, Judy Howard (1995)
"Cooperation, receptivity, and Access to Services A relative caregiver's receptivity
to education and intervention significantly affects the child. ..."
5. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"To these belong his high culture, his receptivity of all that was beautiful, his
great gift of eloquence.t the ease and gracefulness of his epistolary style ..."
6. A Commentary on Kant's Critick of the Pure Reason: Translated from The by Kuno Fischer, John Pentland Mahaffy (1866)
"... sometimes forgetting the receptivity of the mind in the intuition, not only
of the matter, but of the form of objects. ..."
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