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Another word for openness

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Noun

  1. The condition of being laid open to something undesirable or injurious

    See also:

    protection

  2. Ready acceptance of often new suggestions, ideas, influences, or opinions

    See also:

    accept

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Sentence Examples

  • Her warmth and openness disarmed him enough to take the edge off his anger.

  • Martha turned the openness up a notch.

  • His perfect openness, the notoriety of his bankruptcies and of the seizure of his books and furniture in execution, kept him before the world as a model of dissipation.

  • The same conspicuous openness of mind appears in his judgment, delivered after he had held the regius professorship of Modern History at Oxford from 1858 to 1866, that "ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense."

  • In contrast to this complete industrial occupation, the French territory was held by a small and very scattered population, its extent and openness adding materially to the difficulties of a disputed tenure.

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