noun
- Without obstructions to passage or view.
- usage: "the openness of the prairies"
- Characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive.
- synonyms: nakedness
- Willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas. )
- usage: "he was testing the government's receptiveness to reform"; "this receptiveness is the key feature in oestral behavior, enabling natural mating to occur"; "their receptivity to the proposal"
- synonyms: receptiveness, receptivity
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