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Noun openness has 3 senses

• openness(n = noun.attribute) Array - without obstructions to passage or view; "the openness of the prairies"
is a kind of spacing, spatial arrangement
has particulars: patency
Derived form adjective open₁₉

• openness(n = noun.attribute) nakedness - characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive; Array
is a kind of sociability, sociableness
Antonym: closeness
Derived forms adjective open₂₀, adjective open₁₆

• openness(n = noun.attribute) receptiveness, receptivity - 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"
is a kind of willingness
Derived forms adjective open₁₄, adjective open₁₅

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THESAURUS

openness

access, accessibility, admissibility, admission, amenableness, apparentness, approachability, artlessness, assimilation, austerity, availability, baldness, bareness, big mouth, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, candor, childlikeness, clearness, come-at-ableness, common speech, communicativeness, completeness, comprehension, comprehensiveness, comprisal, conversableness, coverage, crystal-clearness, defenselessness, directness, distinctness, effusion, effusiveness, eligibility, embodiment, embracement, encompassment, envisagement, evidence, evidentness, exhaustiveness, exposure, extroversion, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, forthrightness, frankness, freedom, freeness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, genuineness, getatableness, gettableness, gift of gab, glibness, gregariousness, guilelessness, gush, gushiness, helplessness, homespun, hospitality, household words, impressionability, inclusion, inclusiveness, incorporation, influenceability, ingenuousness, innocence, invitingness, leanness, liability, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, malleability, manifestness, matter-of-factness, membership, movability, naiveness, naivete, naivety, nakedness, naturalness, nonimmunity, obtainability, obtainableness, obviousness, open mind, open-mindedness, openheartedness, openness to sight, outgoingness, outspokenness, overtness, palpability, participation, patentness, penetrability, perspicuity, persuadability, persuadableness, persuasibility, perviousness, plain English, plain dealing, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, plainspokenness, procurability, procurableness, prolixity, prosaicness, prosiness, reachableness, reception, receptiveness, receptivity, recipience, responsiveness, restrainedness, roundness, rustic style, securableness, severity, simpleheartedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity, single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness of heart, slush, soberness, sociability, spareness, spate of words, starkness, straightforwardness, suggestibility, susceptibility, susceptivity, swayableness, talkativeness, tangibility, tolerance, toleration, trustfulness, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, unconstraint, unguardedness, unimaginativeness, unmistakableness, unpoeticalness, unquestionability, unrepression, unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint, unrestriction, unreticence, unsecretiveness, unsophisticatedness, unsophistication, unsuppression, unsuspiciousness, untaciturnity, unwariness, verbosity, vernacular, visibility, volubility, vulnerability, weakness, whole, windiness

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