RECEPTIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does receptivity mean? 

• RECEPTIVITY (noun)
  The noun RECEPTIVITY has 1 sense:

1. willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)

  Familiarity information: RECEPTIVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECEPTIVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

openness; receptiveness; receptivity

Context example:

their receptivity to the proposal

Hypernyms ("receptivity" is a kind of...):

willingness (cheerful compliance)

Derivation:

receptive (open to arguments, ideas, or change)

receptive (ready or willing to receive favorably)

 Context examples 

Then you want me not to let some previous conviction injure the receptivity of my mind with regard to some strange matter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Existing methods tend to identify cell types using fluorescent or magnetic labels, which take time to attach, but this platform uses the phenomenon of dielectrophoresis: because different kinds of cells have different levels of receptivity to electrical fields, a trait called polarizability, when an electric potential gradient is activated around the chip, different cells are pulled in different directions at different speeds.

(Scientists say new medical diagnostic chip can sort cells anywhere with an inkjet, Wikinews)