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

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