responsiveness

responsive | American Dictionary

responsive
adjective
us/rɪˈspɑn·sɪv/
quick to act, esp. to meet the needs of someone or something:
He had promised a government responsive to the people.

responsiveness

noun[ U ]us/rɪˈspɑn·sɪv·nəs/
This 5-minute procedure (= doing something to fix your computer)can let you keep more programs open and sharpen your PC's responsiveness.

responsive | Business English

responsive
adjective
uk /rɪˈspɒnsɪv/us
reacting quickly and well to something or someone:
responsive to sthThe most effective IT function is one that is responsive to the needs of the business it serves.
The management offer an efficient and responsive service to local companies.

responsively

adverb
The organization is not responsively run.

Examples of responsive

responsive
For the sake of quality standards and efficiency, generic plans of care are formulated for patients that are not responsive to individual circumstances.
Governments that are responsive are generally more legitimate than those that do not, and should experience less instability, all other things being equal, of course.
However, these heavier, less responsive particles form streaks with a smaller angle of inclination in the braids.
We find that within farms, land allocation is responsive to relative crop prices and yields.
This is so, whether that work is seen, variously, as responsive, pro-active, collaborative and experimental or as eccentric, tangental and obscure.
Parliament has become highly responsive to events that appear in the news.
Again, these policies had to be responsive to variations in customer demand and the changing constraints placed on the plants producing the products.
A justification responsive to the parochialism objection is nowhere to be found in the texts of the conventions that list putative human rights.
Several critics have noted that the novel seems responsive to the climate in which psychic investigations are beginning to take place.
The researcher-curiosity process is a standard research funding process in which the funding is responsive to research suggested by research teams.
This form of behaviour requires that a subsystem participant is not responsive to the past policy preferences of other participants.
Thus, rate responsive ventricular pacemakers seem to adequately respond to the daily life physiological needs of this selected group of children requiring permanent pacing.
In lateral thalamus, cells responsive to painful stimuli are located in the core area and in the postero-inferior area.
Note, however, the sense in which the judge's decision is responsive to the par ticipation of the (losing) defendant as well.
Disease-specific instruments do not allow these comparisons, but may be more clinically meaningful and more responsive.
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