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openness

openness

22 3.5
Being honest and clear about your actions and intentions
  • noun
  • /ˈoʊpənnəs/
translation icon : transparencia
  • Public trust in science depends on openness, transparency and effective regulation.
  • openness and transparency
  • political openness
  • openness and accountability

Ash, I very much appreciate your openness, your honesty.

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Examples

  • So that really helps me a lot because your openness about it is actually what we need.

  • I found Mansour's openness refreshing.

  • Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your heart and for doing it with such an incredible degree of of openness and respect.

  • Like having that conversation and giving her that openness, that honesty.

  • Ash, I very much appreciate your openness, your honesty.

  • The new regime in South Africa is committed to values of openness, transparency, and accountability in government.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The important thing is that you are engaging with some modality from a place of openness and honesty.

  • You know, the thing I admire most about you, Derek, is your honesty... your openness.

  • Nevertheless, even at the institutional level, there are signs of increasing openness on the part of some evangelical churches.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Public trust in science depends on openness, transparency and effective regulation.

Synonyms

honesty
vsopenness
365 1.0

Being truthful and fair in what you say and do

stresses fairness while also requiring open disclosure of intentions
sincerity
vsopenness
71 3.1

A feeling of being honest and not pretending

focuses more on honesty of feeling than on full transparency
candor
vsopenness
  • US
42 5.7

Being open and honest when talking or behaving

covers that speech plus wider transparency about behaviour and plans
veracity
vsopenness
27 7.6

Being honest and not telling lies

includes truthfulness but also stresses absence of secrecy or hiding
truthfulness
vsopenness
13 2.7

Being honest and not telling lies

adds active transparency about intentions and actions beyond truth telling
frankness
vsopenness
7 3.5

Open and honest talk that says exactly what you think

includes direct talk but also transparency about actions and motives
forthrightness
vsopenness
3 6.6

A way of speaking that is honest and direct

adds the idea of sharing facts about one’s actions and aims
straightforwardness
vsopenness
1 5.0

Being direct and honest without hiding what you think

stresses that plus lack of secrecy about behaviour or plans
truth-telling
vsopenness
1 4.1

Openly honest and saying facts people hide

is wider, meaning general transparency and no secrecy overall
candidness
vsopenness
1 5.1

An honest and open way of speaking or acting

is broader, including clear sharing of actions and intentions
blunt honesty
vsopenness
1 3.9

Saying the truth in a direct way that may hurt people

covers that tone while also highlighting lack of concealment
ingenuousness
vsopenness
1 8.2

Open and honest without trying to hide anything

is about deliberate transparency rather than merely naive genuineness
downrightness
vsopenness
6.7

An open and direct way of speaking or acting

emphasises transparency about intentions more than mere directness
unvarnished honesty
vsopenness
5.5

Very direct and truthful speech that does not soften the facts

includes blunt speech but also the absence of hidden actions
honestness
vsopenness
4.8

Being truthful and fair in what you say and do

is broader, meaning transparent behaviour and no concealment of motives
freeness
vsopenness
5.4

An open and honest way of speaking or acting

includes that lack of reserve but also the idea of no secrecy

Antonyms

165 4.4

Keeping information hidden from other people

1 5.3

A secret way of behaving that hides someone's plans

How Open

transparency
146 3.7
candor
  • US
42 5.7
openness
22 3.5
reserve
9 5.2
secrecy
165 4.4

Surface Forms

openness singular
opennesses plural

Morphology

openness = open (transparent) = open + ness

Derived by adding '-ness' to 'open' meaning honest/transparent, yielding the noun expressing that quality.

Etymology

Openness comes from open, meaning 'not closed', and the ending -ness that shows a state or quality. Imagine someone as an 'open book' who lets others see what they think and do, so openness means honesty and no secrets.