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Receptiveness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the characteristic of being receptive

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being receptive.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Power or readiness to receive; receptivity.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)

Word Usage

"Accordingly it is in his characters that most men place, and rightly place, his supreme excellence: here it is that his wisdom finds and grasps men directly as men; nor, at this point of meeting, does he leave any part of our many-sided being without its fitting portion of meat in due season; while our receptiveness is the only limit to our acquisitions. ["

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

willingness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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