openness
Meaning
- (uncountable, usually) 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.
- (uncountable, usually) The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
- (uncountable, usually) Lack of secrecy; candour, transparency.
- (uncountable, usually) The degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify 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.
- (uncountable, usually) 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
single mindedness
Translations
openheid
franchise
franchezza
Offenheit
ειλικρίνεια
ingenuitas μετριοπάθεια
transparència άνοιγμα
الانفتاح ηπιότηταFrequency
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English *opennesse, from Old English openness (“openness, publicity”), equivalent to open + -ness. Cognate with Old High German offannussi (“disclosure, revelation, openness”).
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