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  • The male alligator had spent days in early spring lying beside the female in a mating pair, blowing bubbles on her checks and providing her with other signs of masculine attention designed to bring her to receptivity,  (source)
    receptivity = open to being approached (in this case, for mating)
  • The oxygen solution also contains an anaesthetic that deadens pain receptors.†  (source)
  • They were attacking the cancer with a new cocktail: two chemo drugs and a protein receptor that they hoped would turn off the oncogene in Gus's cancer.†  (source)
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  • He probably wasn't in a very receptive mood.†  (source)
    receptive = open to arguments, ideas, or change
  • His mother was a microbiologist: it had been her job to study the proteins of the bioforms unhealthy to pigoons, and to modify their receptors in such a way that they could not bond with the receptors on pigoon cells, or else to develop drugs that would act as blockers.†  (source)
  • Very little receptivity to the resonances of the future.†  (source)
  • I'm pretty sure I'd recognize the ingredients of a known brain-receptor drug.†  (source)
  • He was, my mother knew, quite unreceptive on the subject of Gravesend Academy.†  (source)
    unreceptive = not open to arguments, ideas, or change
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreceptive means not and reverses the meaning of receptive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • I waited, receptively, for further information, but none came.†  (source)
    receptively = in a manner that is open to arguments, ideas, or change
  • Blindness to life, secession, unreceptivity, a dull wall of anxious, overprotected flesh, ignorant of the subtlety of God or Nature and unfeeling toward its beauty.†  (source)
    unreceptivity = not in a manner that is open to arguments, ideas, or change
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreceptivity means not and reverses the meaning of receptivity. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • I stopped here, letting the words take shape and sequence, my hand around Donna's ankle, and I sensed a certain receptiveness, a thing I needed to beat back the incongruity.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • As a consequence the troopers were swamped with calls from people claiming to know the hiker's identity, so they were even less receptive to Westerberg than they had been to Gallien.†  (source)
    receptive = open to arguments, ideas, or change
  • You don't have scent receptors.†  (source)
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