openness

openness

English

Etymology

open +‎ -ness

Noun

openness (usually uncountable, plural opennesses)

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.

Synonyms

• (accommodating attitude or opinion): open-mindedness, approachability

Translations

accommodating attitude or opinion

Czech: otevřenost f Finnish: avoimuus (fi) Greek: ανοικτότητα (el) f (anoiktótita) Hebrew: פתיחות‎ (ptiḥut) Irish: oscailteacht f

Norwegian: Bokmål: åpenhet (no) m or f Swahili: uwazi (sw) Swedish: öppenhet (sv) Tagalog: labusaw

degree to this attitude is exhibited

Finnish: avoimuus (fi)

Greek: ανοικτότητα (el) f (anoiktótita)

lack of secrecy, transparency

Finnish: avoimuus (fi), läpinäkyvyys (fi)

computing: degree of accessibility

Finnish: avoimuus (fi)

systems theory: degree to which exchange occurs

Finnish: avoimuus (fi)