Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Power or readiness to receive; receptivity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being receptive.
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- noun the characteristic of being
receptive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
Etymologies
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Examples
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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. [
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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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. [
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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Pardek introduced him to the proconsul at the time, Neral, who claimed a receptiveness to discussing the Movement and its ideals.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Pardek introduced him to the proconsul at the time, Neral, who claimed a receptiveness to discussing the Movement and its ideals.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Pardek introduced him to the proconsul at the time, Neral, who claimed a receptiveness to discussing the Movement and its ideals.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Pardek introduced him to the proconsul at the time, Neral, who claimed a receptiveness to discussing the Movement and its ideals.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Pardek introduced him to the proconsul at the time, Neral, who claimed a receptiveness to discussing the Movement and its ideals.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Pardek introduced him to the proconsul at the time, Neral, who claimed a receptiveness to discussing the Movement and its ideals.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Pardek introduced him to the proconsul at the time, Neral, who claimed a receptiveness to discussing the Movement and its ideals.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Pardek introduced him to the proconsul at the time, Neral, who claimed a receptiveness to discussing the Movement and its ideals.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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