adjective
- Open to arguments, ideas, or change.
- usage: "receptive to reason and the logic of facts"
- Ready or willing to receive favorably.
- usage: "receptive to the proposals"
- synonyms: open
- Of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system.
- usage: "sensory neurons"
- synonyms: centripetal, sensory
- Able to absorb liquid (not repellent. )
- usage: "the paper is ink-receptive"
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