openness
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈoʊpənnəs/
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apertura
- When students and staff hear that name, they tell me they associate fun, openness, and cheerfulness.
- openness to experience
- openness to new ideas
- openness to change
You lead with your openness to being dependent.
- You lead with your openness to being dependent.
- And then how are you feeling now as far as your openness to trying it?
- I I will speculate that some of it is about openness to experience.
- So I want you to bring your youthful energy, your fun, your openness to life.
- You may have this openness and maybe that's not mutual.
- We'll be able to learn it through the openness of learning.
- So that that affected my openness and my willingness to, to feel.
- But imagine if you just created more openness in a person, right?
- So I think there's a certain openness that that I learned from Breaking Bad.
- And so that openness I think can be fostered.
- Or is there freedom from having that kind of openness because it's can be terrifying.
Examples
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You shared with us your story, your humanity, and your openness and willingness to listen.
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And then how are you feeling now as far as your openness to trying it?
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Where does, where does that openness come from for you?
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We'll be able to learn it through the openness of learning.
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But imagine if you just created more openness in a person, right?
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You need only have curiosity about new technology and openness to new ideas.
Academic text (2012) -
Our survival depends on our openness and links to the world.
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Most importantly, we have a culture of openness and exploration.
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The Civil Rights Movement, the Women's Movement, the whole movement toward a greater openness of society.
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Her openness to feedback helped improve the team's performance.
Synonyms
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6.2
Willingness to accept new ideas or suggestions
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A willingness to accept new ideas or feedback
Being ready to welcome new people, ideas or situations
A willingness to accept different opinions and ways of life
Antonyms
How Open
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Openness comes from the simple word open, an old English word meaning 'not closed', plus the ending -ness that turns it into a quality. Think of an 'open' mind that does not shut out new ideas, so openness means being willing to consider new thoughts.