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RECEPTIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does receptiveness mean?
• RECEPTIVENESS (noun)
The noun RECEPTIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
Familiarity information: RECEPTIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
openness; receptiveness; receptivity
Context example:
their receptivity to the proposal
Hypernyms ("receptiveness" is a kind of...):
willingness (cheerful compliance)
Derivation:
receptive (open to arguments, ideas, or change)
receptive (ready or willing to receive favorably)
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