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responsiveness.

Noun
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MEANING

The ability or willingness to react promptly and suitably to needs or changes.

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  • responsiveness to feedback
  • institutional responsiveness

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The review praised the service's responsiveness to complaints.

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responsiveness

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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation. Commonness: moderately common.

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