Responsiveness
[rɪ'spɑnsɪvnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being responsive; reacting quickly; as a quality of people, it involves responding with emotion to people and events.
(noun.) responsive to stimulation.
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Examples
- It parts with its flexible responsiveness and alert eagerness for additional meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Instead of an evil, it looks to me like progress towards greater responsiveness of parties to popular need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With respect to sympathetic curiosity, unbiased responsiveness, and openness of mind, we may say that the adult should be growing in childlikeness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It would simply indicate that their social responsiveness is employed on their own behalf, not that it does not exist. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Mind, understanding, denotes responsiveness to meanings (ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The native mechanism of the child and his impulses all tend to facile social responsiveness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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