Openness

Noun

 * 1) Accommodating attitude or opinion, as in receptivity to new ideas, behaviors, cultures, peoples, environments, experiences, etc., different from the familiar, conventional, traditional, or one's own.
 * 2) The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
 * 3)  degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify computer code in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing that code.
 * 4)  the degree to which a system operates with distinct boundaries across which exchange occurs capable of inducing change in the system while maintaining the boundaries themselves.

Synonyms

 * open-mindedness, approachability

Thesaurus
access, accessibility, admissibility, admission, amenableness, apparentness, approachability, artlessness, assimilation, austerity, availability, baldness, bareness, big mouth, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, candor, childlikeness, clearness, come-at-ableness, common speech, communicativeness, completeness, comprehension, comprehensiveness, comprisal, conversableness, coverage, crystal-clearness, defenselessness, directness, distinctness, effusion, effusiveness, eligibility, embodiment, embracement, encompassment, envisagement, evidence, evidentness, exhaustiveness, exposure, extroversion, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, forthrightness, frankness, freedom, freeness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, genuineness, getatableness, gettableness, gift of gab, glibness, gregariousness, guilelessness, gush, gushiness, helplessness, homespun, hospitality, household words, impressionability, inclusion, inclusiveness, incorporation, influenceability, ingenuousness, innocence, invitingness, leanness, liability, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, malleability, manifestness, matter-of-factness, membership, movability, naiveness, naivete, naivety, nakedness, naturalness, nonimmunity, obtainability, obtainableness, obviousness, open mind, open-mindedness, openheartedness, openness to sight, outgoingness, outspokenness, overtness, palpability, participation, patentness, penetrability, perspicuity, persuadability, persuadableness, persuasibility, perviousness, plain English, plain dealing, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, plainspokenness, procurability, procurableness, prolixity, prosaicness, prosiness, reachableness, reception, receptiveness, receptivity, recipience, responsiveness, restrainedness, roundness, rustic style, securableness, severity, simpleheartedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity, single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness of heart, slush, soberness, sociability, spareness, spate of words, starkness, straightforwardness, suggestibility, susceptibility, susceptivity, swayableness, talkativeness, tangibility, tolerance, toleration, trustfulness, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, unconstraint, unguardedness, unimaginativeness, unmistakableness, unpoeticalness, unquestionability, unrepression, unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint, unrestriction, unreticence, unsecretiveness, unsophisticatedness, unsophistication, unsuppression, unsuspiciousness, untaciturnity, unwariness, verbosity, vernacular, visibility, volubility, vulnerability, weakness, whole, windiness

Translations

 * Hebrew: פתיחות


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