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Openness vs Bluntness - What's the difference?

openness | bluntness |

As nouns the difference between openness and bluntness

is that 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 while bluntness is the characteristic of being blunt.

openness

English

(wikipedia 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

    bluntness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The characteristic of being blunt.
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