Definition for Receptiveness:

• 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".

Synonyms for Receptiveness:

• n.

  •
  • accept.
  •attribute (noun)
  • receptiveness.
  •convenience (noun)
  • opportunenesses,
  • serviceabilities,
  • pro-motion,
  • co operations,
  • handinesses,
  • co operation,
  • time savers,
  • pro motions,
  • re-lief,
  • re lief.
  •sensitivity (noun)
  • Impressionability,
  • sensitiveness,
  • Affectibility,
  • sensitivities,
  • impressionabilities,
  • reactiveness,
  • reactivity,
  • reactivities.
  •willingness (noun)
  • ductility,
  • earnestness,
  • adaptability,
  • assent,
  • amenability,
  • readiness,
  • submissiveness,
  • yieldingness,
  • pliability,
  • acquiescent,
  • susceptibility,
  • tractability,
  • tameness,
  • cooperation,
  • flexibility,
  • agreeability,
  • malleability,
  • persuadability,
  • compliance,
  • eagerness.

• Other synonyms:

  •approachability
  • accessibility.

Paraphrases for Receptiveness:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    receptivity.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    responsivity, acceptance, sensitiveness.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    responsiveness, openness, sensitivity, open-mindedness, readiness, willingness, susceptibility, opening, availability, tenderness, sensibility.

Antonyms for Receptiveness:

• n.

  • openness
    disbelief, disagreement.

Receptiveness Sentence Examples:

• He began with regular periods of mental concentration, an opening of the soul, as it were, to spirit impressions; he would sit alone, in a state of meditative receptiveness for ten or fifteen minutes every day, and later several times a day, waiting for something to happen - he did not know what.

• Yet what is doubt but dissatisfaction with what is known and with the manner of knowing, and a spur to further inquiry, to better and fuller learning, to self scrutiny, to an examination of one's own sentiments, one's own character, and an inducement to broadmindedness, to a welcoming receptiveness of all the suggestions and all the teachings which life at all moments generously showers on us?

Hyponym for Receptiveness:

• n.

  • attribute
    willingness.