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Responsiveness

noun

Responsive to stimulation. Synonym: reactivity.

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

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"Responsiveness" Quotes from Famous Books

... produced in the transformation of his bodies, visible and invisible, through which the ego manifests itself in the physical world. In the degree that these are organized and made sensitive and responsive they cease to be limitations of consciousness. Such sensitiveness and responsiveness may be brought about by meditation, together with proper attention to the purification of the physical and astral bodies; for ...

— Self-Development and the Way to Power • L. W. Rogers

... she was past the very first of young girlhood, being twenty, was curiously undeveloped emotionally. She had never had any lovers, and the fault had been her own, from a strange persistence of childhood in her temperament. She had not attracted, from her own utter lack of responsiveness. She was like an instrument which will not respond to the touch on certain notes, ...

— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... that Nelly's inborn wish to be liked, her quivering responsiveness, together with a strong dose of natural indolence, made her hate disagreement or friction of any kind. She was always yielding—always ready to give in. But when Bridget in her harsh aggravating way fought things out and won, Nelly was indeed often made miserable, ...

— Missing • Mrs. Humphry Ward

Words linked to "Responsiveness" : quality, sensitivity, unresponsiveness, responsive, irritability, sensibility, reactivity, excitability, sensitiveness