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US
/ˈɹiˌsɛpˈtɪvɪti/
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[ UK /ɹɪsɪptˈɪvɪti/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪsɪptˈɪvɪti/ ]
NOUN
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willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
this receptiveness is the key feature in oestral behavior, enabling natural mating to occur
he was testing the government's receptiveness to reform
their receptivity to the proposal
How To Use receptivity In A Sentence
- Drop candidates must visually indicate their receptivity.
- The constant form of this receptivity, which we call sensibility, is a necessary condition of all relations in which objects can be intuited as existing without us, and when abstraction of these objects is made, is a pure intuition, to which we give the name of space. The Critique of Pure Reason
- In the field of confessional theology there have been developments that allow greater receptivity to new ideas.
- In addition to its role in sperm competition, seminal fluid stimulates oviposition and reduces female receptivity to future mating.
- With Butterick ... the order was reversed, as the period of receptivity began first," and it was classified, therefore, as regularly protogynous. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951
- The supersonic boundary - layer receptivity to local disturbance in freestream is studied by DNS.
- First, several studies have demonstrated that larger males deliver larger spermatophores that reduce post-mating receptivity and female propensity to remate.
- It traps pheromones to alert potential mates of sexual receptivity.
- Geniuses must have a wild look, their hair must be in disarray, their mind must be in torment on account of their receptivity to divine afflatus, which comes in via the hair.
- They then feel that when they interpret out of a greater receptivity to this, there is more conviction for the analyst and for the analysand.