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

The Centre for the Less Good Idea seems to bear, in its very name, that humility and receptivity you’re talking about.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2022

But health officials privately worry about limited funds, worn-out front-line health workers and the dwindling receptivity of many Americans to covid precautions.

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2022

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

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

How do differences in receptivity among societies arise?

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