RESPONSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does responsiveness mean? 

• RESPONSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun RESPONSIVENESS has 2 senses:

1. responsive to stimulation

2. the quality of being responsive; reacting quickly; as a quality of people, it involves responding with emotion to people and events

  Familiarity information: RESPONSIVENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPONSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Responsive to stimulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

reactivity; responsiveness

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

sensibility; sensitiveness; sensitivity ((physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "responsiveness"):

excitability; irritability (excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being responsive; reacting quickly; as a quality of people, it involves responding with emotion to people and events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Antonym:

unresponsiveness (the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events)

Derivation:

responsive (readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion)

 Context examples 

PKA activates protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) which dephosphorylates DARPP-32 and increases dopamine responsiveness.

(CK1/CDK5 Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Their mode of action is either non-specific, resulting in increased immune responsiveness to a variety of antigens, or antigen-specific, affecting a restricted type of immune response to a narrow group of antigens.

(Immunoadjuvant, NCI Thesaurus)

A protein expression profile to define and quantitate the activity and drug responsiveness of the expressed kinome.

(Kinome Response Profile, NCI Thesaurus)

SMAD3 and SMAD4 proteins specifically recognize an eight base pair palindromic DNA sequence that confers TGF-beta responsiveness to a minimal promoter.

(Mothers Against Decapentaplegic Homolog 3, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the immune responsiveness of B-cells.

(CD24 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes cancer/testis antigen 1B protein, may play a role in both germ cell maturation and immune responsiveness.

(CTAG1B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Diminished immune responsiveness to specific antigens.

(Anergy, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase-like 2 protein, plays a role both in interleukin-1-induced up-regulation of the transcription factor NF-kappa B and in regulation of responsiveness to bacterial endotoxins.

(IRAK2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

These metabolites are excreted in urine that maybe used as indicators for pituitary responsiveness.

(Metyrapone, NCI Thesaurus)

In regard to function, neurons in the 3D brain-like tissue exhibited electrical activity and responsiveness that mimic signals seen in the intact brain, including a typical electrophysiological response pattern to a neurotoxin.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)