'openness' definitions:
Definition of 'openness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Without obstructions to passage or view; "the openness of the prairies"
noun
Characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive [syn: openness, nakedness] [ant: closeness, secretiveness]
noun
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" [syn: receptiveness, receptivity, openness]
Synonyms of 'openness'
From: Moby 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 dealing,
- plain English,
- 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
Words containing 'openness'
- can opener,
- open,
- open to,
- open up,
- opened,
- opener,
- opening,
- openly,
- out in the open,
- Counter opening,
- Gill opening,
- Letters open,
- Open Sesame,
- Open chain,
- Open policy,
- Open sight,
- Pew opener,
- Spherical opening,
- To break open,
- To fling open,
- To fly open,
- To lay open,
- To open the budget,
- To open the trenches,
- Under open sky,
- bottle opener,
- break open,
- cap opener,
- chess opening,
- click open,
- drop open,
- eye opener,
- eye opening,
- fall open,
- fly open,
- hold open,
- keep open,
- letter opener,
- neck opening,
- open account,
- open air,
- open and aboveboard,
- open circuit,
- open diapason,
- open door,
- open eyed,
- open fire,
- open fireplace,
- open forum,
- open fracture,
- open frame,
- open house,
- open interval,
- open letter,
- open market,
- open marriage,
- open minded,
- open order,
- open place,
- open primary,
- open sandwich,
- open secret,
- open shop,
- open society,
- open to question,
- open university,
- open weave,
- opening line,
- opening move,
- opening night,
- tin opener,
- wide open,
- with open arms,
- To keep open house,
- eye-opening,
- open classroom school,
- open-air,
- open-and-shut,
- open-chain,
- open-collared,
- open-ended,
- open-eyed,
- open-hearth,
- open-minded,
- open-plan,
- open-source,
- wide open spaces,
- wide-open,
- To lay one's self open to,
- keep one's eyes open,
- open-air market,
- open-air marketplace,
- open-angle glaucoma,
- open-class word,
- open-door policy,
- open-end credit,
- open-end fund,
- open-end wrench,
- open-face sandwich,
- open-faced watch,
- open-heart surgery,
- open-hearth furnace,
- open-hearth process,
- open-end investment company