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  • noun Plural form of receptivity.

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Examples

  • Which commercials it runs, and when, indicate how the station is pitching its listeners 'tastes and receptivities to sponsors.

    Host 2005

  • Which commercials it runs, and when, indicate how the station is pitching its listeners 'tastes and receptivities to sponsors.

    Host 2005

  • Diamond offers two tribes, the Chimbu and the Daribi, as examples of differing receptivities to innovation.

    Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond: Questions 1997

  • And it must be admitted that some teachers have given occasion for this kind of offense; not observing the compatibility of great aspirations and majestic affinities with a state of deep spiritual thraldom; assuming, also, with as little right, the want of all appropriate sensibilities and receptivities for the truth, as a necessary inference from the complete destitution of holiness.

    Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876

  • _Ethical_ has application to the receptivities, -- the inner wants, and states of the heart.

    History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868

  • It is divine love, or life, stirring in all their internal receptivities which creates their joys.

    The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Jermain Wesley 1859

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