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Noun: openness  ow-pun-nus
  1. Without obstructions to passage or view
    "the openness of the prairies"
     
  2. Characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
    - nakedness
     
  3. Willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
    "he was testing the government's openness to reform";
    - receptiveness, receptivity

Type of: sociability, sociableness, spacing, spatial arrangement, willingness

Encyclopedia: Openness