Crossword clues for receptivity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Receptivity \Rec`ep*tiv"i*ty\ (r[e^]s`[e^]p*t[i^]v"[i^]*t[y^] or r[=e]`s[e^]p*t[i^]v"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [Cf. F. r['e]ceptivit['e].]
The state or quality of being receptive.
(Kantian Philos.) The power or capacity of receiving impressions, as those of the external senses.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being receptive 2 (context countable English) The extent to which something is receptive
WordNet
n. willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas); "he was testing the government's receptiveness to reform"; "this receptiveness is the key feature is oestral behavior, enabling natural mating to occur"; "their receptivity to the proposal" [syn: receptiveness, openness]
Wikipedia
Receptivity, or receptive agency, is a practical capacity and source of normativity, discussed and developed in various ways by writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stanley Cavell and Martin Heidegger, among others. According to the philosopher Nikolas Kompridis, who has argued for its importance to democratic politics, romanticism and critical theory, the term has both ontological and ethical dimensions, and refers to a mode of listening and "normative response" to demands arising outside the self, as well as "a way by which we might become more attuned to our pre-reflective understanding of the world, to our inherited ontologies," thereby generating non-instrumental possibilities for social change and self-transformation.
Usage examples of "receptivity".
These have previously been spoken of only in neurological terms, and it has been suggested that they helped to condition the regeneration of his convictions by maintaining his nervous system in a highly impressionable and malleable state of receptivity.
U Thant, the Burmese Secretary General of the UN, was testing receptivity to a neutralist coalition government.
Orientalism staked its existence, not upon its openness, its receptivity to the Orient, but rather on its internal, repetitious consistency about its constitutive will-to-power over the Orient.
He washed his mind clear with a shake of his satyrish head, and strained every sense into receptivity.
The same set of written or oral instructions may evoke an experience of conceptually unmediated awareness in one person and not in others, depending on their contextual knowledge and receptivity.
There was the same receptivity, the same calm acceptance and mutual admiration one would find among any ordinary Ashregan.
And there was a lot of getting in and out of boats, in and out of pools, and, in a daze of booze and indifference, getting in and out of beds, even though I had long since discovered that it is a habit which degrades the receptivity to sensation, coarsens selectivity, implies obligation, and turns off most useful introspection.
His characterisation was pointed with such wide-eyed and unsullied innocence, such eager and open-mouthed receptivity, such a succulently plastic amenability to suggestion, such rich response to flatteryin a word, with such a sublime absorptiveness to the old oilthat men such as Mr Quarterstone, on becoming conscious of him for the first time, ha been known to wipe away a furtive tear as they dug down into their pockets for first mortgages on the Tower of London and formul for extracting radium from old toothpaste tubes.
Sensing his receptivity, she dared ask him why he had been chased by his own people.
There's also a male scientist's better-genes-through-cuckoldry theory, which reasons that a cavewoman with the misfortune to have been married off by her clan to an ineffectual husband could use her constant receptivity to attract (and be extramaritally impregnated by) a neighboring caveman with superior genes.
She was never cold - you retained at all times an impression of vibrant feminity - but she never projected either the air of receptivity which provokes passes, or the studied indifference which is the same thing in disguise.
However, all these bird species differ from us in that ovula-tion is advertised, female receptivity and the sex act are mostly confined to the fertile period around ovulation, sex is not recreational, and economic cooperation between pairs is slight or nonexistent.
In addition, receptivity to innovation fluctuates in time within the same region.
Thus, in Alexander and Noonan's view, women's concealed ovulations and constant receptivity evolved in order to promote monogamy, paternal care, and fathers' confidence in their paternity.
Bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees) resemble or approach us in many of these latter respects: female receptivity is extended through several weeks of the estrus cycle, sex is mainly recreational, and there is some economic cooperation between many members of the band.