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Receptivity vs. Recipience

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Receptivitynoun

(uncountable) The state of being receptive.

Recipiencenoun

The ability to receive; receptivity

Receptivitynoun

(countable) The extent to which something is receptive.

Recipiencenoun

The quality or state of being recipient; a receiving; reception; receptiveness.

Receptivitynoun

The state or quality of being receptive.

Receptivitynoun

The power or capacity of receiving impressions, as those of the external senses.

Receptivitynoun

willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas);

‘he was testing the government's receptiveness to reform’; ‘this receptiveness is the key feature is oestral behavior, enabling natural mating to occur’; ‘their receptivity to the proposal’;

Receptivity

Receptivity, or receptive agency, is a practical capacity and source of normativity, discussed and developed in various ways by writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stanley Cavell and Martin Heidegger, among others. According to the philosopher Nikolas Kompridis, who has argued for its importance to democratic politics, romanticism and critical theory, the term has both ontological and ethical dimensions, and refers to a mode of listening and to demands arising outside the self, as well as thereby generating non-instrumental possibilities for social change and self-transformation.

‘normative response’; ‘a way by which we might become more attuned to our pre-reflective understanding of the world, to our inherited ontologies,’;

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