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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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13 words match “OPENNESS”

OPENNESS n.
The quality or state of being open.
AIRINESS n.
The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.
APERTNESS n.
Openness; frankness. [Archaic]
DIRECT a.
Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. Be even and direct with me. Shak.
EXPOSURE n.
The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold to inconvenience. When we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure. Shak.
FREEDOM n.
Frankness; openness; unreservedness. I emboldened spake and freedom used. Milton.
FREENESS n.
The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.
INGENUITY n.
Openness of heat; ingeniuousness. [Obs.] The stings and remores of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them. South.
INGENUOUSNESS n.
The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.
OUT adv.
figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out. Leaves are out and perfect in a mont…
SNEAKING a.
Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
SOLIDITY n.
sity; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness. That which hinders the appr…
TEMPERATURE n.
stitution; state; degree of any quality. The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. Bacon. Memory depends upon the consistence and the temperature of the brain. I. Watts.…