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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 administration's relative openness and extreme leakiness made the White House like a body with translucent skin.
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.
Its worker-centered design process and interior layout display an unusual commitment to workplace openness.
There was a rapidly growing urban middle class and signs of political openness from time to time.
Whiston's openness in this regard is likely one of the reasons Newton eventually broke with his quondam disciple.

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