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单词 receptibility
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receptibilityn.

Brit. /rᵻˌsɛptᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /rəˌsɛptəˈbɪlᵻdi/, /riˌsɛptəˈbɪlᵻdi/
Forms: 1600s 1800s receptability, 1600s– receptibility.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: receptible adj., -ity suffix.
Etymology: < receptible adj. + -ity suffix: see -bility suffix. Compare post-classical Latin receptibilitas (also receptabilitas) capacity to receive (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources).
1. Capacity for receiving.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > [noun] > a containing space > capacity
receivablenessc1443
capacity1481
content1491
receipt1565
continenta1608
capability1616
receptibility1651
gauge1655
reception1667
1651 tr. J. A. Comenius Nat. Philos. Reformed iv. 66 From the receptibility of colours, a body is called Pellucid, or Opacous.
1682 T. Watson Relig. our True Interest iv. 50 Christ was of that spotless purity that he had no receptibility of Evil.
1702 P. King Hist. Apostles Creed iv. 209 He..thinks it undeniably evinced from the Soul's passivity, or receptibility of Joy or Misery in its separate state.
1800 T. Browne Union Dict. Receptibility, possibility of receiving.
1893 Overland Monthly June 616/1 She had been for so long in a state of receptibility for the news of his re-marriage with Angie, that she was too bewildered to surmise..this unexpected step.
1917 Elem. School Jrnl. 17 292 New material is brought before the child when he naturally is enthusiastic and at his period of greatest receptibility.
1928 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 23 139 The receptibility of the public to new commodities.
2002 A. Schreiber Human Computer xxi. 181 Regulation of the transmitted signal is effected by the amount of neurotransmitter released into the neuro junction,..the level of receptibility of the target neuron, [etc.].
2. The quality or state of being receptible; receptiveness.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > [noun]
intelligibleness1611
intelligibility1635
perceivableness1641
cognoscibility1656
understandableness1656
knowableness1660
comprehensibleness1669
scibility1670
receptibility1676
comprehensibility1793
apprehensibility1827
recognizability1836
cognizability1852
knowability1854
thinkableness1860
cognizableness1871
perceivability1871
discernibleness1890
pronouncement1908
understandability1934
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun] > reception > receptiveness
receptivenessa1651
receptibility1820
recipiency1850
1676 Doctr. of Devils 50 There is one Doctrine of his, would spoil all the receptibility of the whole System of Religion promulgated in his Gospel.
1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia 114 Some inequality in this receptibility.
1820 L. Hunt Indicator No. 55 (1822) II. 20 Without at all diminishing his receptability among the said circles.
2003 C. Jenks Transgression v. 120 The contradictions and incompatibilities within their [sc. the Kray brothers'] own twinning..produced a blurring of the immediate impact of their presence or..a constant lubrication of their receptibility. Nowhere is this more apparent than in relation to their sexuality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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