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Adjective: receptive  ri'sep-tiv
  1. Ready or willing to receive favourably
    "receptive to the proposals";
    - open
     
  2. Open to arguments, ideas, or change
    "receptive to reason and the logic of facts"
     
  3. Of a nerve fibre or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
    "receptive neurons";
    - centripetal, sensory
     
  4. Able to absorb liquid (not repellent)
    "the paper is ink-receptive"

See also: absorbent, absorptive, acceptant, acceptive, admissive, afferent, assimilative, hospitable, pervious