how to pronounce openness

/ˈoʊpənnəs/

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openness is pronounced in three syllables

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oʊpənnəs

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An example use of openness in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… interaction and openness Doug vacation …”

meanings of openness

noun:

  1. The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
  2. Degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify 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.
  3. Lack of secrecy; candour, transparency.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

openness frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word openness occurs in english on average 4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics openness can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that openness can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;

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