Crossword-Solution: OPENNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Openness | n. | The quality or state of being open. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “OPENNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| What "glasnost" means | 1 answer |
| Lack of secrecy | 1 answer |
| Candid quality | 1 answer |
| Receptivity | 2 answers |
| Without concealment | 3 answers |
| candor | 10 answers |
| Transparency | 15 answers |
| sincerity | 19 answers |
| generosity | 22 answers |
| shortness | 43 answers |
| uprightness | 43 answers |
| abruptness | 44 answers |
| terseness | 45 answers |
| forthrightness | 46 answers |
| brevity | 46 answers |
| honesty | 52 answers |
| frankness | 53 answers |
| perturbation | 53 answers |
| ingenuousness | 56 answers |
| expeditiousness | 58 answers |
| hastiness | 59 answers |
| innocence | 60 answers |
| Celerity | 61 answers |
| Wantonness | 62 answers |
| alacrity | 62 answers |
| fanaticism | 63 answers |
| spontaneity | 63 answers |
| candour | 65 answers |
| promptness | 66 answers |
| ardour | 71 answers |
| Ebullience | 75 answers |
| Eagerness | 75 answers |
| flutter | 75 answers |
| Enthusiasm | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OPENNESS (5)
But as this tract is put forth merely as a history, or, if you will, as a tale, in which, amid some examples worthy of imitation, there will be found, perhaps, as many more which it were advisable not to follow, I hope it will prove useful to some without being hurtful to any, and that my openness will find some favor with all.
Now, the remarkable point is, that the original wears, to the world’s eye,—and, for aught I know, to his most intimate friends,—an exceedingly pleasant countenance, indicative of benevolence, openness of heart, sunny good-humor, and other praiseworthy qualities of that cast.
The corridor walls were all solid glass, giving the impression of more openness than was really provided by the windowless, climate controlled, 40% sterile environment.
Lorry’s eye caught his, he was taken with that peculiar kind of short cough requiring the hollow of a hand before it, which is seldom, if ever, known to be an infirmity attendant on perfect openness of character.
Her sensibilities, I suspect, are strong—and her temper excellent in its power of forbearance, patience, self-control; but it wants openness.
Quotes with OPENNESS (3)
It has always seemed strange to me... The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth, whatever it may turn out to be. This requires a state of openness, curiosity, and sincerity, a state of pure awareness, a state of observing reality without jumping to conclusions about what reality is. This state of direct experience is known in Zen as “beginner’s mind,” and it is essential to embody this state when we want to understand our experience.
A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (2001–2010).