Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Capacity to receive; receptivity.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A receiving; the act of or capacity for receiving; receptivity.
  • noun Imp. Dict.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being recipient; a receiving; reception; receptiveness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The ability to receive; receptivity

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Examples

  • How do those of you who believe in rights of recipience quantify them?

    What we’ve lost 2007

  • A focus on rightholders steers moral reasoning toward the perspective of recipience, instead of toward the traditional active ethical questions of what one ought to do and how one ought to live.

    Rights Wenar, Leif 2007

  • As to the subject or _percipient_, experience has taught us that the four following states are probably the most important for the recipience of a telepathic message:

    The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919

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