receptivity

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Measuring the receptivity of stigmas, a necessary element for pollination, overlapped with the highest number of beetles found visiting the flowers.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

By the end of the recording, you just may feel the world ever so slightly differently, with your perception a little changed, your receptivity a little enhanced, your sense of wonder a little improved.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2023

That makes all the difference in producing receptivity.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022

If children’s wisdom and receptivity to images are present, this idealized picture has great appeal.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Still another alternative view holds that it is a matter not of individual inventiveness but of the receptivity of whole societies to innovation.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond