receptivity

Example Sentences

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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 the big change is the apparent receptivity of juries to convict police officers when they harm or kill someone in the line of duty,” she said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2022

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

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

“Then you want me not to let some previous conviction injure the receptivity of my mind with regard to some strange matter. Do I read your lesson aright?”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker