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receptive


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Receptive  \Re*cep"tive\,  a.  [Cf.  F.  r['e]ceptif.  See  {Receive}.] 
  Having  the  quality  of  receiving;  able  or  inclined  to  take  in 
  absorb,  hold  or  contain;  receiving  or  containing;  as  a 
  receptive  mind. 
 
  Imaginary  space  is  receptive  of  all  bodies.  --Glanvill. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  receptive 
  adj  1:  open  to  arguments,  ideas,  or  change;  "receptive  to  reason 
  and  the  logic  of  facts" 
  2:  ready  or  willing  to  receive  favorably;  "receptive  to  the 
  proposals"  [ant:  {unreceptive}] 
  3:  of  a  nerve  fiber  or  impulse  originating  outside  and  passing 
  toward  the  central  nervous  system;  "sensory  neurons"  [syn: 
  {centripetal},  {sensory(a)}] 




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