recipiency
Americannoun
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the act of receiving; reception.
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the state or quality of being receptive; receptiveness.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of recipiency
First recorded in 1880–85; recipi(ent) + -ency
Example Sentences
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Virginia, which has relatively limited benefits, also has starkly low recipiency rates among the unemployed — with the third-lowest average rate in the nation over the past two decades, the audit found.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2021
I have then only to state the effect produced on my mind by each of these, or the quantum of recipiency and coincidence in myself relatively thereto, in order to complete my Confession of Faith.
From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Don Quixote's leanness and featureliness are happy exponents of the excess of the formative or imaginative in him, contrasted with Sancho's plump rotundity, and recipiency of external impression.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The percipient mind is no mere recipiency or susceptibility with its forms of time and space: it is spontaneously active, it is the source of categories, or is an apperceptive power,—an understanding.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
But she was so safely not in love with Goldwin that she could continually, by strokes of frank tact, show the world her own calm recipiency and his entire subservience.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
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