receptive
Although most of these crazes now seem tragically quaint, the '70s were also characterized by a touching receptiveness to new ideas.
There is a need for receptiveness to new ideas as opposed to the instantaneous rejection which is our normal British heritage.
Contini believes that the modern child can be weaned off the junk-food diet, and that the key is to tap in to their receptiveness to culinary education.
Until now there has been little attention paid to how we feel and how that shapes our receptiveness to advertising.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Open-minded
anti-liberal
anti-liberalism
big tent
broad-minded
broad-mindedness
inclusively
liberal
liberalism
liberality
liberally
open mind
open-minded
open-mindedly
open-mindedness
permissive society
tolerance
tolerant
tolerantly
unblinkered
undogmatic

Examples of receptiveness

receptiveness
By understanding these relations, researchers may discover new ways to increase the receptiveness of their audience and influence attitudes and behaviors that foster adoption.
First, business is not all-powerful, as some observers seem to indicate, because its influence depends on the receptiveness of the government it interacts with.
The idea of uniform receptiveness is in fact the same as for admissibility, modulo a distinct concept of output.
Cultural factors that affect patients' receptiveness to self-care may influence both the no intervention baseline and the effect of an intervention.
Family carer support was also conditional upon effective communication and family carer receptiveness.
A receptiveness to difference would seem to go hand-in-hand with the promotion of pluralism.
At present, there is very little evidence about what such threshold levels might be, nor yet whether children vary in their receptiveness to negative input.
While findings revealed limited overall gains in reliability, there was considerable individual variation in receptiveness to the training input.
In addition, many international refugee agencies deliberately make relief assistance available to local people so as to increase the receptiveness of the host community to refugees.
Elaborative discourse about shared experiences in the context of a generally warm, secure relationship may enhance children's receptiveness to the understanding of psychological states embedded within such conversations.
There have been massive changes in cancer service organization and philosophy in recent years, involving in particular an increased sensitivity and receptiveness to the needs and wishes of patients.
That has never been fully explained to me, but it suggests a lack of receptiveness in the system.
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