Someone who is receptive to new ideas or suggestions is prepared to consider them or accept them. The voters had seemed receptive to his ideas + receptiveness re·cep·tive·ness There was less receptiveness to liberalism in some areas
Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind
of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons"
If someone who is ill is receptive to treatment, they start to get better when they are given treatment. those patients who are not receptive to treatment. willing to consider new ideas or listen to someone else's opinions
open to arguments, ideas, or change; "receptive to reason and the logic of facts"