Synonyms for Openness
open·ness

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1. 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.

   Synonyms:
   approachability, open-mindedness

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. openness

   Synonyms:
   artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, simplicity, sincerity, truth

   Antonyms:
   art, artifice, blind, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, dodge, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, invention, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. opennessnoun

   without obstructions to passage or view

   "the openness of the prairies"

   Synonyms:
   nakedness, receptivity, receptiveness

   Antonyms:
   closeness, secretiveness

2. openness, nakednessnoun

   characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive

   Synonyms:
   bareness, nudeness, bleakness, openness, nakedness, desolation, nudity, receptiveness, receptivity

   Antonyms:
   secretiveness, closeness

3. 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"

   Synonyms:
   nakedness, receptivity, receptiveness, openness

   Antonyms:
   secretiveness, closeness

Matched Categories

1. • Sociability
   • Spacing
   • Willingness

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "openness":

   opening, transparency, opening-up, frankness, open-mindedness, open, commencement, aperture, initiation, candour, receptiveness, honesty, unlock, candor, sincerity

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1. Touch Our:

   The open hand is the opposite of a fist, a fist is violent; it means war, while a hand is open and reflects an openness to friendship and communication. We call it Touch Our Future because when you impact the life of an infant, you are actually touching a future that we won’t see. You are really having an impact on their (the infants’) future.

2. Mark Zuckerberg:

   Something interesting is happening with Facebook Live that's bringing more openness to the political process, it's a way to share anything you want with the world using just your phone.

3. Diana Winston:

   I define it as paying attention to our present moment experiences with openness, curiosity and willingness to be with that experience, not lost in the past, not lost in the future.

4. Donald Tusk:

   We can no longer allow solidarity to be equivalent to naivety, openness to be equivalent to helplessness, freedom to be equivalent to chaos. And by that, I am of course referring to the situation on our borders, citizens want to feel safe again, because only then will they be capable of helping people in need.

5. Andreas Iseli:

   At the moment I would say we're seeing a lot of openness, indoor/outdoor living and a lot of use of glass.