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

It takes humility to learn, and we are salting the earth against any hope of humble receptivity to painful lessons.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 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