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Receptivity

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Noun

1. openness, receptiveness, receptivity

willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)

Example Sentences:
'he was testing the government's receptiveness to reform'
'this receptiveness is the key feature in oestral behavior, enabling natural mating to occur'
'their receptivity to the proposal'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Receptivity

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adjective
1. 
able to apprehend quickly
2. 
tending to receive new ideas or suggestions favourably
3. 
able to hold or receive

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Receptivity

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adjective
1. 
receiving or tending to receive, take in, admit, or contain
2. 
inclined to the favorable reception of a request, suggestion, etc.
3. 
able or ready to receive new ideas
4. 
of reception or receptors

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Receptivity

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adj.
1. Capable of or qualified for receiving.
2. Ready or willing to receive favorably: receptive to their proposals.
3. Linguistics Of or relating to the skills of listening and reading.
4.
a. Receiving or ready to receive penetration in sexual intercourse.
b. Receiving or ready to receive male gametes or nuclei during sexual reproduction: a receptive hypha; receptive stigmas.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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