amenable vs receptive

amenable

adj
  • Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions. 

  • Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable. 

  • Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements. 

  • Willing to comply; easily led. 

  • Liable to the legal authority of (something). 

receptive

adj
  • Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas. 

  • Capable of receiving something. 

  • Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus. 

  • Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile. 

  • Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression. 

How often have the words amenable and receptive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )