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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
Lack of secrecy; candour, transparency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: computing, education, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: mathematics, sciences, systems-theory
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noun
willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: receptiveness, receptivity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: willingness
noun
characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: nakedness
Antonyms: closeness
Broader terms: sociability, sociableness
noun
without obstructions to passage or view
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spacing, spatial arrangement
Narrower terms: patency
History
From Middle English *opennesse, from Old English openness (“openness, publicity”), equivalent to open + -ness. Cognate with Old High German offannussi (“disclosure, revelation, openness”).
Across languages
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
