receptiveness (noun)

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• receptiveness — noun willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) 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… …   Useful english dictionary

• receptiveness — noun see receptive …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• receptiveness — noun The characteristic of being receptive …   Wiktionary

• receptiveness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Ready acceptance of often new suggestions, ideas, influences, or opinions: open mindedness, openness, receptivity, responsiveness. See ACCEPT …   English dictionary for students

• receptive — adjective Date: 15th century 1. able or inclined to receive; especially open and responsive to ideas, impressions, or suggestions 2. a. of a sensory end organ fit to receive and transmit stimuli b. sensory 3. of a female animal willing to… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• receptive — adjective (often receptive to) 1》 able or willing to receive something.     ↘willing to consider new ideas. 2》 (of a female animal) ready to mate. Derivatives receptively adverb receptiveness noun receptivity noun …   English new terms dictionary

• receptive — /rəˈsɛptɪv / (say ruh septiv) adjective 1. having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting. 2. able or quick to receive ideas, etc.: a receptive mind. 3. having, or characterised by, a disposition to receive a suggestion, offer, or the… …  

• openness — noun 1. without obstructions to passage or view the openness of the prairies • Derivationally related forms: ↑open • Hypernyms: ↑spacing, ↑spatial arrangement • Hyponyms: ↑patency …   Useful english dictionary

• receptivity — noun willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) 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… …   Useful english dictionary

• antenna — noun (plural antennae or nas) Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Latin, sail yard Date: 1646 1. plural nae one of a pair of slender movable segmented sensory organs on the head of insects, myriapods, and crustaceans see insect …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• receptibility — noun The condition of being receptible; receptiveness …   Wiktionary