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What does openness mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word openness? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. 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.
  2. The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
  3. Lack of secrecy; candour, transparency.
  4. (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.
  5. (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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The main problem with such TV altercations is that they pretend to be about openness and honesty but in fact embrace no such virtues.
He argues that openness in public life is necessary because meaningful participation in the democratic process requires informed participants.
When I enter the library, it is with an openness and receptivity to whatever is waiting to reveal itself to me.
There is a new openness by unions today to building alliances with community-based organizations and churches.
Whiston's openness in this regard is likely one of the reasons Newton eventually broke with his quondam disciple.
I do not see how anyone can look with genuine openness at the surrounding world without a sense of mystery on every hand.

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