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Definition of Openness

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.

3. Noun. Willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas). "Their receptivity to the proposal"

Definition of Openness

1. n. The quality or state of being open.

Definition of Openness

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion. ¹

3. Noun. (computing) degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify computer code 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 that code. ¹

4. Noun. (context: systems theory) 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Openness

1. the state of being open [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Openness

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Literary usage of Openness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Regulatory Reform in Denmark by Oecd (2000)
"Further attention in several policy areas would increase the benefits of market openness for Denmark's economy. Against this overall positive picture, ..."

2. Regulatory Reform in the United States by Scott H. Jacobs (1999)
"Market openness further increases the benefits of regulatory reform for consumers and ... US domestic regulation 1s largely consistent with market openness ..."

3. Security Awareness in the 1980s: Featured Articles From Security Awareness (1992)
"The American public must interpret Soviet public statements and the ongoing Soviet public relations campaign to demonstrate a most un-Soviet-like openness, ..."

4. The OECD Report on Regulatory Reform by Joanna R. Shelton (1997)
"OECD's Future Role in Promoting Regulatory Reform to Enhance Market openness 327 NOTES 328 REFERENCES 330 TABLES Table 1. Weight of Tokyo Financial Market ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1915)
"In the third degree of openness, the unaccented vowels in fulfill, and willful, occur; but (written with a single letter) are sufficiently distinguished by ..."

6. Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing And Employing America for a by Cosepup, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (2007)
"BALANCING SECURITY AND openness Science thrives on the open exchange of information, on collaboration, and on the opportunity to build on previous work. ..."

7. Regulatory Reform in Hungary by Oecd (2000)
"The OECD efficient regulation principles for market openness To ensure that regulations do not unnecessarily reduce market openness, "efficient regulation" ..."

8. Christ in Creation and Ethical Monism by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1899)
"I exhort you to openness OF MIND. By this I do not mean a crazy love for novelty, a childish passion for the next thing, whatever it may ..."

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