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, 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

   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. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.

2. Sameer Samat:

   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.

3. Dara Khosrowshahi:

   For the Iranian people not to have the chance to experience what America has to offer, the spirit and the openness, would be a real shame, there is a chance to open the dialogue between the people of Iran and the West, and it's a point in time that's unique.

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. Martha Nussbaum:

   To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”