openness

Plural: opennesses

Noun

• The quality of being frank, receptive, or accessible.
• without obstructions to passage or view
  • "the openness of the prairies"
• characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
• willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
• 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.
• The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
• Lack of secrecy; candour, transparency.
• The degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing.
• The degree to which a system operates with distinct boundaries across which exchange occurs capable of inducing change in the system while maintaining the boundaries themselves.

Examples

• The openness of the Scrabble board invited multiple parallel plays and high scores.

Synonyms

nakedness, receptiveness, receptivity, approachability, open-mindedness

Antonyms

closeness