receptivenessn.
/rᵻˈsɛptᵻvnᵻs/, U.S. /rəˈsɛptɪvnᵻs/, /riˈsɛptɪvnᵻs/ Readiness or ability to receive something. Cf. receptivity n.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [noun] > understanding, comprehension > state of
comprehension1597
comprehense1604
receptivenessa1651
receivableness1654
recipiency1850
the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > [noun] > openness to suggestion
receptivitya1620
receptivenessa1651
susceptivity1722
susceptibility1782
impressionability1835
susceptiveness1873
manipulability1942
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun] > reception > receptiveness
receptivenessa1651
receptibility1820
recipiency1850
the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] > ability or liability to be affected
danger1377
subjection1593
susceptiblenessa1631
susceptibility1644
obnoxiety1656
obviousness1669
receptiveness1701
sensibility1703
affectibility1817
sensitiveness1825
impressionability1835
impressionality1884
affectability1908
a1651 C. Love Combate Flesh & Spirit (1654) 72 What a natural receptivenesse is there in thy heart, for the intertaining of that which is evil?
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace v. 104 There is found in us a capacity, aptness, or receptiveness of this principle of life.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. i. 79 From the receptiveness of first matter he concludes the real and actual existence of it.
1791 J. Hunt Doctr. God’s Eternal Decrees Stated 81 God was pleased to create the things which now are, when there was nothing contributed to its formation but a mere passive receptiveness of that form that the sovereign Creator was pleased to impress upon it.
1840 F. A. Rauch Psychol. (1853) ii. iii. 289 This receptiveness is of course, self-activity at the same time, yet so that the form of the senses and the self-feeling of the being whose senses they are, determine the sensations.
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 85 A young man..with a reverential receptiveness and a delicate sensibility.
1925 E. von Arnim Love i. xii. 113 Was she a mere vessel of receptiveness, a transparent vessel into which other people poured their view of her?
1964 W. R. Brain Doctors Past & Present 97 Lister, though he was old, and looked old, remained young in his receptiveness of new ideas.
2004 J. Spade Duality of his Life v. 38 True silence surrounds you and enhances the receptiveness of the senses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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