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A Clinical Work Consultation Experience In this work consultation experience my feelings were openness, reflectiveness, pain, helpfulness, alertness, searchfulness, appreciativeness, receptiveness, responsiveness, wantedness, competence, joy, and importance.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

Stevenson probably had no such gift of discrimination, but that he had at least the faculty of musical appreciativeness seems perfectly clear.

From Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work by Various

It may be said with equal truth, that it is difficult for a man of any appreciativeness to have convictions at all. 

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas

Kendal bad introduced him to her, in a brief encounter at the Salon, and she remembered the appreciativeness of the glance that accompanied the stout middle-aged English gentleman's bow.

From A Daughter of To-Day by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

Yet there may be cases in which this ready appreciativeness may prove a hindrance to progress rather than a help.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)