Hyphenation of receptiveness

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word receptiveness? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

re-cep-tive-ness

Definitions of receptiveness:

1.	Willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) He was testing the government's receptiveness to reform This receptiveness is the key feature in oestral behavior
2.	Enabling natural mating to occur Their receptivity to the proposal

Synonyms of receptiveness:

noun	receptivity, openness, willingness

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.