openness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun without obstructions to passage or view
    • the openness of the prairies
  2. noun characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
    nakedness.
  3. noun willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
    receptivity; receptiveness.
    • 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

WordNet


O"pen*ness noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being open.

Webster 1913