Receptiveness vs. Receptivity — What's the Difference?

Capable of or qualified for receiving.

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 "normative response" to demands arising outside the self, as well as "a way by which we might become more attuned to our pre-reflective understanding of the world, to our inherited ontologies," thereby generating non-instrumental possibilities for social change and self-transformation.

Ready or willing to receive favorably

Capable of or qualified for receiving.

(Linguistics) Of or relating to the skills of listening and reading.

Ready or willing to receive favorably

Receiving or ready to receive penetration in sexual intercourse.

(Linguistics) Of or relating to the skills of listening and reading.

Receiving or ready to receive male gametes or nuclei during sexual reproduction

Receiving or ready to receive penetration in sexual intercourse.

The characteristic of being receptive

Receiving or ready to receive male gametes or nuclei during sexual reproduction

The quality of being receptive.

(uncountable) The state of being receptive.

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

(countable) The extent to which something is receptive.

The state or quality of being receptive.

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

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