receptivity
Willingness to receive
Receptivity is openness to receiving—ideas, influences, impressions, or signals.
Someone with receptivity to new concepts considers them without reflexive resistance.
The term appears in discussions of learning, communication, and relationships: Her receptivity to feedback made her easy to coach.
In technical contexts, receptivity describes how readily a system accepts input: The soil's receptivity to moisture depends on its composition.
Acceptance of differing viewpoints
- curiosityDesire to learn
- willingnessOpenness to act
- readinessState of being prepared
- broad-mindednessOpenness to differing views
tolerance · interest · eagerness · enthusiasm · liberality · inclusiveness · unprejudiced · nonjudgmental
Harmonious receptive connection
- responsivenessReadiness to react
- perceptivenessAbility to notice subtleties
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
empathy · discernment · acuity · insightfulness · impressionability · susceptibility · absorption · sympathetic
Ability to adapt easily
- pliabilityAbility to bend easily
- malleabilityCapacity for deformation without breaking
- plasticityAbility to change shape
- versatilityCapacity for varied applications
resilience · accommodation · adjustment · elasticity · compliance · tractability · conformability · moldability
Receiving others warmly
- warmthHeat you feel
- friendlinessWarm, welcoming disposition
- cordialitySincere friendly warmth
- graciousnessCourteous, kind demeanor
invitation · geniality · affability · congeniality · amiability · sociability · greeting · embrace
open-mindedness
Acceptance of differing viewpoints
- curiosityDesire to learn
- willingnessOpenness to act
- readinessState of being prepared
broad-mindedness · tolerance · interest · eagerness · enthusiasm · liberality · inclusiveness · unprejudiced · nonjudgmental · impartiality
attunement
Harmonious receptive connection
- responsivenessReadiness to react
- perceptivenessAbility to notice subtleties
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
intuition · empathy · discernment · acuity · insightfulness · impressionability · susceptibility · absorption · sympathetic · understanding
flexibility
Ability to adapt easily
- pliabilityAbility to bend easily
- malleabilityCapacity for deformation without breaking
- plasticityAbility to change shape
versatility · resilience · accommodation · adjustment · elasticity · compliance · tractability · conformability · moldability · suppleness
welcoming
Receiving others warmly
- warmthHeat you feel
- friendlinessWarm, welcoming disposition
- cordialitySincere friendly warmth
graciousness · invitation · geniality · affability · congeniality · amiability · sociability · greeting · embrace · inclusiveness
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
- dispositionsdisposition, predisposition, inclination, tendency, propensity
- mental skillsmemory, intelligence, focus, concentration, reasoning
- sensitivitysensitivity, sensitive, hypersensitivity, oversensitivity, hypersensitive
- spiritual statesenlightenment, devotion, ecstasy, salvation, fervor
- thinking traitscritical thinking, analytical thinking, open-mindedness, curiosity, intellectual humility
receptivityclosed-mindedness
Refusal to consider other views
unreceptiveness · resistance · imperviousness · narrow-mindedness · obstinacy
receptivityhostility
Antagonistic disposition toward others
rejection · antagonism · coldness · rebuff · unfriendliness
receptivityapathy
Absence of feeling
indifference · unresponsiveness · disinterest · unconcern · impassivity
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