recipiency

American  

[ri-sip-ee-uhn-see] / rɪˈsɪp i ən si /

Also recipience

noun

1. the act of receiving; reception.

2. the state or quality of being receptive; receptiveness.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• nonrecipiency
  noun
• nonrecipience
  noun

Etymology

Origin of recipiency

First recorded in 1880–85; recipi(ent) + -ency

Example Sentences

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

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 Fawcett, Edgar

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

And farther, every abstract or general notion,—colours in the abstract, sweetness, pungency, &c.—supposes these, powers of the understanding in addition to the recipiency of the senses.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander