Openness
['əʊpənnɪs] or ['opənnəs]
Definition
(noun.) characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive.
(noun.) without obstructions to passage or view; 'the openness of the prairies'.
Edited by Della--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being open.
Typist: Mason
Examples
- His distinctive quality was his openness of mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A distant supercilious air makes a cold atmosphere about her, and there is nothing in her bearing, as there was before, to encourage openness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The openness cleanses it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With respect to sympathetic curiosity, unbiased responsiveness, and openness of mind, we may say that the adult should be growing in childlikeness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He had no good-humour in his face, nor any openness of aspect left, but had become a secret, angry, dangerous man. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- To come among us with professions of openness and simplicity; and such a league in secret to judge us all! Jane Austen. Emma.
- But this proud openness was made lovable by an expression of unaffected good-will. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Lydgate was more surprised at the openness of this talk than at its implied meaning--that the Vicar felt himself not altogether in the right vocation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Besides, it was given with an engaging air of openness, and of special exemption of the one friend he valued, from his reckless indifference. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Her sensibilities, I suspect, are strongand her temper excellent in its power of forbearance, patience, self-control; but it wants openness. Jane Austen. Emma.
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