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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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He argues that openness in public life is necessary because meaningful participation in the democratic process requires informed participants.
The mobility is also part of an employment pattern of openness to new workplaces.
No, it's not a shock to me that this president would have that kind of transparent, what-you-see-is-what-you-get openness in a respectful way.
The administration's relative openness and extreme leakiness made the White House like a body with translucent skin.
There was a rapidly growing urban middle class and signs of political openness from time to time.
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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