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
If children’s wisdom and receptivity to images are present, this idealized picture has great appeal.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
She describes how her students surprise her with their receptivity to the arguments of second-wave anti-porn feminists, like Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
Hence social scientists continue to debate the specific reasons why receptivity changed in Islam, China, and Europe, and why the Chimbus, Ibos, and Navajo were more receptive to new technology than were their neighbors.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
