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Responsiveness

noun

Responsive to stimulation. Synonym: reactivity.

The quality of being responsive; reacting quickly; as a quality of people, it involves responding with emotion to people and events.

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"Responsiveness" Quotes from Famous Books

... produced in the transformation of his bodies, visible and invisible, through which the ego manifests itself in the physical world. In the degree that these are organized and made sensitive and responsive they cease to be limitations of consciousness. Such sensitiveness and responsiveness may be brought about by meditation, together with proper attention to the purification of the physical and astral bodies; for ...

— Self-Development and the Way to Power • L. W. Rogers

... it may be truly said that the flexibility and responsiveness of the photographic process have been sufficiently demonstrated to fix it ...

— Pictorial Photography in America 1920 • Pictorial Photographers of America

... you must on no account neglect the subscription lists. But only those rich enough to be hypochondriac can afford such luxuries. Now, in the toiling classes there are often good ears for music, and exquisite responsiveness to religious sensations. What satisfies such natures and such wants must be cheap. The Plymouth Brethren (I ought rather to say Christian Brethren), have no General Assembly, little or no pedantry of ...

— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes

... responded to this human relationship. The Ambassador, at the simple approach of a human being, became as a man transformed. Tired though he might be, low in spirits as he not infrequently was, the press of a human hand at once changed him into an animated and radiating companion. This responsiveness deceived all his friends in the days of his last illness. His intimates who dropped in to see Page invariably went away much encouraged and spread optimistic reports about his progress. A few minutes' conversation with ...

— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick

... silence and the changing expressions of the crowd about the old man, I was suddenly reminded of a company of people I had recently seen. They were gathered in one of the parlours of a women's college, and their serious young faces had, habitually, none of the childlike responsiveness of the Italian populace; they were suggestive, rather, of a daily experience which precluded over-much surprise or curiosity about anything. In the midst of the group stood a frail-looking woman with bright eyes. She was telling a story, a children's story, ...

— How to Tell Stories to Children - And Some Stories to Tell • Sara Cone Bryant