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

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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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How to use openness in a sentence?

1. Artur Pawlowski:

   It created an atmosphere of openness and when you left I was able to share part of my testimony with the prisoners. After I prayed with them, two of them repented from their sins and gave their lives to Jesus. I pray that many more lives would be transformed while I am here.

2. Ben Smith:

   We're hoping that a commitment to transparency and openness to a range of views can help close that gap over time.

3. 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.

4. Alejandro Mayorkas:

   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.

5. Pope Francis:

   The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life, let's think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a few instants a very high number of human beings.