openness

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Synonyms: openess, keenness, bienness, oneness, oftenness, owedness, omenless, evenness, openers, jenness, openest

Antonyms: openess, keenness, bienness, oneness, oftenness, owedness, omenless, evenness, openers, jenness, openest

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Noun

1. {{&lit|en|open|-ness}}
2. {{U|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.
3. The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
4. Lack of [[secrecy]]; [[candour]], [[transparency]].
5. {{lb|en|computing|education}} The degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify 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.
6. {{lb|en|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.

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