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
Still another alternative view holds that it is a matter not of individual inventiveness but of the receptivity of whole societies to innovation.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
