noun
Meaning 1
The state of being receptive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
receptivity
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Sound
Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: R IY1 S EH2 P T IH1 V IH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The extent to which something is receptive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: receptiveness, openness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: willingness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin recipiō Latin receptus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Medieval Latin receptivusbor. Middle English receptive English receptive Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English receptivity From receptive + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: ontvanklikheid — the state of being receptive
- Bulgarian: възприемчивост (vǎzpriemčivost) — the state of being receptive
- Catalan: receptivitat — the state of being receptive
- Danish: modtagelighed — the state of being receptive
- Dutch: ontvankelijkheid — the state of being receptive
- French: réceptivité — the state of being receptive
- German: Aufnahmefähigkeit — the state of being receptive
- German: Empfänglichkeit — the state of being receptive
- Irish: gabhálacht — the state of being receptive
- Italian: ricettività — the state of being receptive
- Korean: 수용성 (suyongseong) — the state of being receptive
- Norwegian: mottakelighet — the state of being receptive
- Portuguese: receptividade — the state of being receptive
- Portuguese: recetividade — the state of being receptive
- Spanish: receptividad — the state of being receptive
- Swedish: mottaglighet — the state of being receptive
- Swedish: receptivitet — the state of being receptive