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receptive

re·cep·tive

UK/ɹɪˈsɛptɪv/ US/ɹəˈsɛptɪv/ uncommon

adjective

1.

open to arguments, ideas, or change

  • “receptive to reason and the logic of facts”
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2.

ready or willing to receive favorably

  • “receptive to the proposals”
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3.

of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system

  • “sensory neurons”
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Origin

From Late Middle English receptive, receptyue (“capable of receiving something; acting as a receptacle”), borrowed from Medieval Latin receptivus (“capable of receiving something”), from Latin receptus (“retaken, having been retaken; received, having been received”) + -īvus (suffix added to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming a deverbal adjective meaning ‘doing; related to doing’).

Phrases

  • receptive aphasia
  • receptive field
  • receptive language
  • receptive spot

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