Synonyms for receptiveness
re·cep·tive·ness

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1. receptiveness, receptivity, opennessnoun

   willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)

   "he was testing the government's receptiveness to reform"; "this receptiveness is the key feature in oestral behavior, enabling natural mating to occur"; "their receptivity to the proposal"

   Synonyms:
   nakedness, receptivity, openness

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1. • Willingness

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1. List of paraphrases for "receptiveness":

   receptivity, responsiveness, sensitivity, responsivity, openness

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How to use receptiveness in a sentence?

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

   When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

   When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?