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receptivity|riːsɛpˈtɪvɪtɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ity.]
The quality of being receptive; ability or readiness to receive or take in. (Common in 19th c., esp. with ref. to the mind.) Also, in the philosophy of Kant, a passive quality contrasted with spontaneity or activity.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. i. §6 (1622) 181 Hee cannot worke any where beyond the possibilitie or receptiuitie of his matter. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. iii. 11 The Air being of a thin Body..is of an easie receptivity for all sorts of Impressions. 1796F. A. Nitsch View of Kant's Princ. 74 That a given variety can occur in our perceptions, knowledge, &c. supposes a..Receptivity which is totally Passive. Ibid. 75 The Receptivity, as far as it receives varieties of the first description, may be called external sense, and as far as it receives varieties of the second description, internal sense. 1798W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXV. 585 His receptivity for aesthetic gratification [is] not delicate. 1837Fraser's Mag. XV. 728 They are here receptivities, or moulds of matter. 1886G. Allen Darwin x. 175 He had the sympathetic receptivity of all truly great minds. 1950M. Peake Gormenghast xxiv. 159 This poem..shall be addressed to as many as are here present in all the variance of their receptivity, status and acumen. 1956C. Morris Var. of Human Nature i. 17 Receptivity should be the keynote of life. Ibid. ix. 191 In Factor D receptivity is directed toward nature, toward the man-cosmos relation, or to the needs of other persons. 1958B. Bernstein in J. A. Fishman Readings in Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 234 It is now necessary to show how this mode of perceiving and the attendant structuring of receptivity conflicts with and induces a resistance to formal education. 1973Churchill & Ameriks tr. Husserl's Experience & Judgment i. i. 79 This phenomenologically necessary concept of receptivity is in no way exclusively opposed to that of the activity of the ego. 1974A. E. Blumberg tr. Schlick's Gen. Theory of Knowl. iii. §40. 371 The introduction of the antithesis between spontaneity and receptivity—in modern terms, between activity and passivity—is entirely inappropriate at this point. |