RECEPTIVITY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Receptivity

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/rˈisˌɛptˈɪvɪti/ Listen

noun

Receptivity n.

The state or quality of being receptive.

(Kantian Philos.) The power or capacity of receiving impressions, as those of the external senses.

See images of 'Receptivity'

Etymology of 'Receptivity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Receptivity" Quotes from Famous Books

... always looked well. In winter, wearing a tweed coat-and-skirt and a small hat of black fur pulled over her eager, palpitant face, she seemed to move down the street in a drifting motion of suspense and exceeding sensitive receptivity. ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

... the north-east and north the Sickle, the Goat and Kids, Cassiopeia, Castor and Pollux, and the two Dippers. While through the whole of this silent indescribable show, inclosing and bathing my whole receptivity, ran the thought ...

— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... souls, and blesses, through them, other souls, who are in a state of receptivity. All these little rills, which water others, little compared with the fountain from which they flow, have no determinate choice of their own, but are governed by the will of their Lord and Master. The nature of God is communicative. God would cease to be God ...

— Letters of Madam Guyon • P. L. Upham

... without the power to act. They must always be plates to receive the picture, and never suns and cameras to imprint it. They must always live within sight of great and beautiful powers, but never have the privilege of wielding them. Doomed to the attitude of receptivity, they see that they can never change it; and that they can never be to others what others are to them. Thus they grow sore with the thought of their weakness, and a sense of the circumscription of their faculties. ...

— Lessons in Life - A Series of Familiar Essays • Timothy Titcomb

... thoughts. All that took place round him, all that he had gone through in life, was meaningless to him now. It was all outlived, and he had nothing to think about. Neither had he any feelings, for all his organs of receptivity had grown dulled. ...

— Tales of the Wilderness • Boris Pilniak

More quotes...