Openness vs Inclusion - What's the difference?
openness | inclusion |
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.
(countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
(uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
(countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material,
(countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
As nouns the difference between openness and inclusion
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 inclusion is inclusion.openness
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(wikipedia openness)Noun
Synonyms
* (accommodating attitude or opinion) open-mindedness, approachabilityinclusion
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Alternative forms
* enclusionNoun
- The poem was a new inclusion in the textbook.
- The inclusion of the poem added value to the course.