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Openness may refer to a general philosophical position highlighted by a decision-making process recognizing communal management by distributed stakeholders (users, producers, or contributors) rather than a centralized authority (owners, experts, boards of directors, etc.).

Openness (or intellect) is the name of one of the major dimensions of personality.

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1. Which is not closed; accessible; as, an open gate.

   Turn left after the second open door.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 2

     The open road, the dusty highway...

2. Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.

   Banks are not open on bank holidays.

3. Receptive.

   I am open to new ideas.

4. Public; as, an open letter, an open declaration.

   He published an open letter to the govenor on a full page of the New York Times.

5. Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character:

   The man is an open book.

References

• Umberto Eco, 1989. The Open Work. Harvard UP.
• The Open Society and Its Enemies

See also

• Accessibility
• Free association
• Free content
• Free software
• Glasnost
• Open source
• Open access: publishing
• Open innovation
• Open education
• Open educational resources
• Open-design movement
• Open government
• Open Knowledge Foundation
• Open knowledge
• Open-mindedness
• Open text
• Open gaming
• Open government
• Open patent
• Open-source curriculum
• Open-source governance
• Open-source hardware
• Open-source journalism
• Open-source model
• Open standard
• Openness to experience
• Secrecy: the opposite of openness
• The Open Definition
• Transparency: openness in a utilitarian view, economic openness, open economic or politic data, degree of openness, etc.