单词 | receptibility |
释义 | receptibilityn. 1. Capacity for receiving. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > a containing space > capacity receivablenessc1443 capacity1481 content1491 receipt1565 continenta1608 capability1616 receptibility1651 gauge1655 reception1667 1651 tr. J. A. Comenius Nat. Philos. Reformed iv. 66 From the receptibility of colours, a body is called Pellucid, or Opacous. 1682 T. Watson Relig. our True Interest iv. 50 Christ was of that spotless purity that he had no receptibility of Evil. 1702 P. King Hist. Apostles Creed iv. 209 He..thinks it undeniably evinced from the Soul's passivity, or receptibility of Joy or Misery in its separate state. 1800 T. Browne Union Dict. Receptibility, possibility of receiving. 1893 Overland Monthly June 616/1 She had been for so long in a state of receptibility for the news of his re-marriage with Angie, that she was too bewildered to surmise..this unexpected step. 1917 Elem. School Jrnl. 17 292 New material is brought before the child when he naturally is enthusiastic and at his period of greatest receptibility. 1928 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 23 139 The receptibility of the public to new commodities. 2002 A. Schreiber Human Computer xxi. 181 Regulation of the transmitted signal is effected by the amount of neurotransmitter released into the neuro junction,..the level of receptibility of the target neuron, [etc.]. 2. The quality or state of being receptible; receptiveness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > [noun] intelligibleness1611 intelligibility1635 perceivableness1641 cognoscibility1656 understandableness1656 knowableness1660 comprehensibleness1669 scibility1670 receptibility1676 comprehensibility1793 apprehensibility1827 recognizability1836 cognizability1852 knowability1854 thinkableness1860 cognizableness1871 perceivability1871 discernibleness1890 pronouncement1908 understandability1934 the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun] > reception > receptiveness receptivenessa1651 receptibility1820 recipiency1850 1676 Doctr. of Devils 50 There is one Doctrine of his, would spoil all the receptibility of the whole System of Religion promulgated in his Gospel. 1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia 114 Some inequality in this receptibility. 1820 L. Hunt Indicator No. 55 (1822) II. 20 Without at all diminishing his receptability among the said circles. 2003 C. Jenks Transgression v. 120 The contradictions and incompatibilities within their [sc. the Kray brothers'] own twinning..produced a blurring of the immediate impact of their presence or..a constant lubrication of their receptibility. Nowhere is this more apparent than in relation to their sexuality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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