|  openness 
 
 1. without obstructions to passage or view
 - the openness of the prairies
 • Derivationally related forms:
 open
 • Hypernyms:
 spacing, spatial arrangement
 • Hyponyms:
 patency
 2. characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes);
 without concealment;
 not secretive
 • Syn:
 nakedness
 • Ant:
 closeness
 • Derivationally related forms:
 naked (for: nakedness), open
 • Hypernyms:
 sociability, sociableness
 3. willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
 - he was testing the government's receptiveness to reform
 - this receptiveness is the key feature in oestral behavior, enabling natural mating to occur
 - their receptivity to the proposal
 • Syn:
 receptiveness, receptivity
 • Derivationally related forms:
 open, receptive (for: receptivity), receptive (for: receptiveness)
 • Hypernyms:
 willingness
 
 
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