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Impassiveness vs Openness - What's the difference?

impassiveness | openness |

As nouns the difference between impassiveness and openness

is that impassiveness is the state of being impassive while openness is 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.

impassiveness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being impassive.
  • Synonyms

    * impassivity

    openness

    Noun

  • 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.
  • The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
  • (computing) degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify computer code 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 that code.
  • (systems theory) 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (accommodating attitude or opinion) open-mindedness, approachability