Associations to the word «Receptivity»

Wiktionary

RECEPTIVITY, noun. (uncountable) The state of being receptive
RECEPTIVITY, noun. (countable) The extent to which something is receptive

Dictionary definition

RECEPTIVITY, noun. Willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas); "he was testing the government's receptiveness to reform"; "this receptiveness is the key feature in oestral behavior, enabling natural mating to occur"; "their receptivity to the proposal".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky