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Synonyms for openness
open·ness
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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.
Synonyms:
approachability, open-mindedness
English Synonyms and Antonyms
openness
Synonyms:
artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, simplicity, sincerity, truthAntonyms:
art, artifice, blind, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, dodge, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, invention, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile
Princeton's WordNet
opennessnoun
without obstructions to passage or view
"the openness of the prairies"
Synonyms:
nakedness, receptivity, receptivenessAntonyms:
closeness, secretivenessopenness, nakednessnoun
characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
Synonyms:
bareness, nudeness, bleakness, nakedness, desolation, nudity, receptiveness, receptivityAntonyms:
secretiveness, closenessreceptiveness, 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, receptivenessAntonyms:
secretiveness, closeness
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PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "openness":
opening, transparency, opening-up, frankness, open-mindedness, open, commencement, aperture, initiation, candour, receptiveness, honesty, unlock, candor, sincerity
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#283 | open | |
#2265 | opening | |
#2276 | truth | |
#8884 | unlock | |
#8943 | nudity | |
#9585 | transparency | |
#10612 | simplicity | |
#11127 | aperture | |
#11293 | commencement | |
#11830 | initiation | |
#13198 | fairness | |
#13655 | honesty | |
#14769 | innocence | |
#18813 | openness | |
#27844 | sincerity | |
#39211 | desolation | |
#46855 | candor | |
#63583 | nakedness | |
#76212 | receptivity | |
#85657 | frankness | |
#118700 | candour | |
#179880 | bleakness | |
#183794 | receptiveness | |
#193588 | approachability | |
#304791 | bareness |
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I really appreciated the openness with which the agents expressed their views, a couple of guys might have expressed them what I felt was unprofessionally — which was surprising to me because it's something I've never seen in the Border Patrol in my… eight years of person-to-person exposure.
Defense Secretary James Mattis:
China's policy in the South China Sea stands in stark contrast to the openness of our strategy, what our strategy promotes, it calls into question China's broader goals. China's militarization of artificial features in the South China Sea includes the deployment of anti-ship missiles, surface-to-air missiles, electronic jammers, and more recently, the landing of bomber aircraft at Woody Island.
It's not as if there's a massive difference between Mr. Trump's position on immigration, mr. Trump just may be more provocative in how he says it, but the actual positions aren't that different. For that matter, they're not that different from Mr. Rubio's positions on immigration. Despite the fact that their families are the products of immigration and the openness of our society.
We have to explain to people from other cultures that the jolly and frisky attitude during our Carnival is not a sign of sexual openness.
President Putin is making Russia a pariah, destroying in the space of a week 30 years of international openness and opportunity.
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