Antonyms for opennessopen·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

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1. openness

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

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

Matched Categories

1. • Sociability
   • Spacing
   • Willingness

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. opennessnoun

   without obstructions to passage or view

   "the openness of the prairies"

   Antonyms:
   closeness, secretiveness

   Synonyms:
   nakedness, receptivity, receptiveness

2. openness, nakednessnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   secretiveness, closeness

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

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"

   Antonyms:
   secretiveness, closeness

   Synonyms:
   nakedness, receptivity, receptiveness

How to use openness in a sentence?

1. Mike Pompeo:

   Look, we know it began at one [ lab ], but we need to figure this out, theres an ongoing pandemic. We still dont have the transparency and openness we need in China.

2. 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.

3. Elena Anciro:

   When lupus affected my brain function, I finally realized that acceptance and openness was the key to recovery and sustained health.

4. Stuart Gulliver:

   Rather, I would expect management to acknowledge an openness to further restructuring.

5. Liu Xiaoming:

   If Britain’s openness is a condition for bilateral co-operation, then mutual trust is the very foundation on which this is built.

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