openness

Other forms of openness

plural

opennesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about openness

What does openness mean?

openness means "without obstructions to passage or view". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in openness?

openness has 3 syllables: o-pen-ness. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊpənnəs/.

What is another word for openness?

Close synonyms include nakedness, receptiveness, receptivity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of openness?

The recorded antonyms are closeness.

Is openness a common word?

openness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.