The quality of being responsive

Usage examples of responsiveness.

I have noticed is that when a plant approaches its death-point by reason of excessively high or low temperature, not only is its general responsiveness diminished almost to zero, but even the slight response occasionally becomes reversed.

These specimens were obtained late in the season, and their electric responsiveness was much lower than those obtained earlier.

By these means we are able to trace the gradual diminution of responsiveness by fatigue, by extremes of heat and cold, its exaltation by stimulants, the arrest of the life-process by poison.

In his September 1998 meeting with Crown Prince Abdullah,Vice President Gore, while thanking the Saudi government for their responsiveness, renewed the request for direct U.

One consequence of this was a responsiveness to unionization among white-collar employees.

By the mid-1970s, they had shown that during habituation in the isolated ganglion there was a steady decrease in the amount of serotonin released from the sensory presynaptic terminal, without there being any change in the responsiveness of the postsynaptic serotonin receptors.

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Skye terrier, her suppositious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers.

The thickset roan gelding could not have been mistaken by the most ignorant urbanite for a fiery steed, but Miles adored him, for his dark and liquid eye, his wide velvet nose, his phlegmatic disposition equally unappalled by rushing streams or screaming aircars, but most of all for his exquisite dressage-trained responsiveness.

Nixon seemed to understand the antitechnocratic mood of his day, and also how technocracy was in opposition to America's older Jeffersonian tradition of local politics and democratic responsiveness.

The Nerva-class fission rockets are used only for takeoff from Earth, where thrust and efficiency count responsiveness and maneuverability count for too much during a powered landing.

The nuances of hooding and unhooding the crystals, of riding and side-slipping wind currents, and of avoiding downdrafts and lightfalls that could change the momentum and responsiveness of an airship in an instant were not easily mastered.

The nuances of hooding and unhooding the crystals, of riding and sideslipping wind currents, and of avoiding downdrafts and lightfalls that could change the momentum and responsiveness of an airship in an instant were not easily mastered.

A few moments later Rimice also cried out, wildly and helplessly, her small, well-curved body, with its sensitivities and responsiveness, apparently turned against her by the mercilessness of her use-master, forcing her to endure slave ecstasy, and then, with a joyous sob, she became one with the ecstasy, and a yielding slave.