Definition of "recipiency" []

• Recipience (noun)

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• "An understanding proportionate to thine, that is, a recipiency at least of thine: -- 2. natural sensibility and lively sympathy in general: -- 3. steadiness in attaching and retaining sensibility to its proper objects in its proper proportions: -- 4. mutual liking; including person and all the thousand obscure sympathies that determine conjugal liking, that is, love and desire to A. rather than to"
• "The ratio you should look up is called the "recipiency" rate"
• "This means learning to abandon passivity, as Dewey said, changing from a position of "inert recipiency and restraint to one of buoyant outgoing energy.""