What does Openness mean?
Definitions for Openness
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Princeton's WordNet
opennessnoun
without obstructions to passage or view
"the openness of the prairies"
openness, nakednessnoun
characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
receptiveness, receptivity, opennessnoun
willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
"he was testing the government's receptiveness to reform"; "this receptiveness is the key feature in oestral behavior, enabling natural mating to occur"; "their receptivity to the proposal"
Wiktionary
opennessnoun
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.
opennessnoun
The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
opennessnoun
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.
opennessnoun
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.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Opennessnoun
Etymology: from open.
Deliver with more openness your answers
To my demands. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.The noble openness and freedom of his reflexions, are expressed in lively colours. Henry Felton, on the Classicks.
These, letters all written in the openness of friendship, will prove what were my real sentiments. Alexander Pope, Letters.
ChatGPT
openness
Openness typically refers to the willingness to consider, accept and embrace new ideas, experiences, suggestions, or behaviors. In a broader context, it can also describe the quality of being transparent, accessible, or unrestricted. This term can be applied in various fields such as psychology, communication, business, government, and computer technology with slightly different nuances.
Wikidata
Openness
Openness may also refer to a very general philosophical position from which some individuals and organizations operate, often highlighted by a decision-making process recognizing communal management by distributed stakeholders rather than a centralized authority. Openness could be a synonym of : ⁕Open system : Openness to experience, wiki, direct democracy, open spirituality, respect for all other beings, etc. ⁕Transparency : openness in a utilitarian view : economical openness, open economic or politic data, etc.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Openness in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Openness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Openness in a Sentence
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Trust is the foundation for Scandinavian openness about taxes, the welfare systems we have in Norway, Sweden and Denmark are basically a collective insurance ... you trust that all the other people will work and pay taxes. That trust in other people gets an extreme expression in the publication of taxes.
Facebook needs to show more openness and transparency when dealing with user data.
Most Android devices ship with at least two app stores preinstalled, and consumers are able to install additional app stores, this openness means that even if a developer and Google do not agree on business terms the developer can still distribute on the Android platform.
I think the most important thing is that the parent communicates a willingness to talk about this, an openness about it, that parents are really attuned to where their children are in this, even just asking a general question, 'Have you heard about this?' and see where your kid goes with that.
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