openness
- Noun:
- The quality of being open to new ideas, opinions, or changes: A willingness to consider or accept different concepts, impressions, or proposals.
- The quality of being honest and not secretive: Characterized by a lack of concealment in one's actions, purposes, or feelings; straightforwardness.
- The quality of having no obstructions; spaciousness: The state of being unenclosed or allowing an unobstructed view or passage.
Referring to receptiveness:
- The manager's openness to feedback improved team morale.
- Scientific progress depends on an openness to new theories.
Referring to honesty and lack of secrecy:
- Political openness requires transparency in decision-making.
- Their relationship was built on mutual trust and openness.
Referring to physical unobstructed space:
- The openness of the landscape was breathtaking.
- Architects design houses to maximize a feeling of openness.
"Openness to experience": In psychology, this is one of the major personality traits, describing a person's curiosity, creativity, and preference for novelty.
- Her high score in openness to experience explains her love for travel and art.
"Culture of openness": Used in organizational contexts to describe an environment where communication is transparent and ideas are freely shared.
- The company's culture of openness encourages employees to speak up without fear.
Open (adj): Not closed or blocked; accessible; willing to consider.
- Please leave the door open.
- I am open to suggestions.
Openly (adv): Without secrecy; publicly.
- They discussed the problem openly.
Open-minded (adj): Willing to consider new ideas; unprejudiced. (Note: This is a compound word listed here as a related concept).
- An open-minded approach is essential for negotiation.
- Receptiveness: Willingness to receive or accept.
- Transparency: The quality of being done in an open way without secrets.
- Candor: The quality of being open and honest in expression.
- Spaciousness: Having ample space.
- Secrecy: The action of keeping something secret.
- Deceptiveness: The quality of being misleading.
- Closed-mindedness: Unwillingness to consider different ideas.
- Enclosure: An area that is sealed off.
"Demonstrate openness": To show a willingness to accept.
- The committee demonstrated openness by listening to all arguments.
"With openness": In a frank and honest manner.
- He answered all questions with complete openness.
"Sense of openness": A feeling of physical or metaphorical space.
- The large windows create a wonderful sense of openness in the room.
- 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
- characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
- without obstructions to passage or view
- the openness of the prairies