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Openness

noun

Without obstructions to passage or view.

Characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive. Synonym: nakedness.

Willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas). Synonyms: receptiveness, receptivity. "This receptiveness is the key feature in oestral behavior, enabling natural mating to occur" , "Their receptivity to the proposal"

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"Openness" Quotes from Famous Books

... knuckle at her parted teeth, comparing the two men and noting the matchless bearing of her Southerner. In it she read again for the hundredth time all the energy and intrepidity which in her knowledge it stood for; his boyish openness and simplicity, his tender belief in his mother, his high-hearted devotion to the fulfilment of his father's aspirations, and the impetuous force and native skill with which at mortal risks and in so short a time he had ranked ...

— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

... him a little face in secret for the formality of his address, as she flashed past him. There was a dancing light in her eye he had not seen before—at least, not in the openness of day. There was something daring about her that was a revelation. He knew at once that he need not fear her attitude when they reached the point where she must carry on her part without his aid. She displayed an innocent boldness that must dissipate ...

— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper

... Auld Lang Syne, My Heart's in the Highlands, and Landlady, Count the Lawin. Burns had a great, warm heart. His sins were sins of passion, and sprang from the same generous soil that nourished his impulsive virtues. His elementary qualities as a poet were sincerity, a healthy openness to all impressions of the beautiful, and a sympathy which embraced men, animals, and the dumb objects of nature. His tenderness toward flowers and the brute creation may be read in his lines To a Mountain Daisy, To a Mouse, and The Auld Farmer's New Year's ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... unaffected and earnest interest with which he threw himself into every subject which fairly engaged his attention or affections, without feeling drawn with all the cords of the heart to the noble boy. There was such a thorough openness and freedom in all that he did and said, yet without recklessness and without indifference to the feelings of others. And when, through thoughtlessness or forgetfulness, as was not unfrequently the case, he happened to find himself in some awkward scrape ...

— Frank Oldfield - Lost and Found • T.P. Wilson

... entertainment did I find at that spot, so grateful did it seem in its openness after long confinement in the lower thickly wooded country, that I practically spent the day there. At all events the best time for walking was gone when I quitted it, and then I could think of no better plan ...

— Afoot in England • W.H. Hudson

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