Both Uses of
receptive
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She found no inspiration but she did find a dependable kindness in Mrs. Westlake, and at last she yielded to the old woman's receptivity and had relief in sobbing the story of Bea.†
Chpt 27 *
- But to have him isolated here all his receptive years—— "And so to bed.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(receptive) open to arguments, ideas, or change
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, receptive can mean that something is capable of receiving something else. In that instance, the thing that receives might be called a receptor as when referring to a molecule that receives and responds to a neurotransmitter.