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open-hearted en · ADJ

Etymology

From open + hearted.

Meanings

1. Frank and candidly straightforward
   • I myself consider the interviews to be of good quality, most of them even very extensive and openhearted. Openhearted, yes, but not on everything. It is a positivist naivete to take what people say as simple truth. 2007, Annick Prieur, Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos, →ISBN, page 22:
2. Generous and kind
   • Sally was generous and open-hearted to the point of foolishness, but that was her experience. 2011, Stella Duffy, chapter 10, in Singling Out The Couples, →ISBN:
3. Emotionally receptive
   • Mindfulness is a practice that enables us to be in an open-hearted relationship with the present moment, recognizing that the world with which we are entangled is always uncertain and changing. 2013, Elina Penttinen, Joy and International Relations: A New Methodology, →ISBN:
   • Whether or not you feel that open-hearted love toward your newborn from the very beginning, one of the best ways to cultivate it and further deepen it is simply by paying attention. 2009, Tracy Gaudet, Paula Spencer, Body, Soul, and Baby: A Doctor's Guide to the Complete Pregnancy Experience from Preconception to Postpartum, →ISBN, page 429:

Forms

Deriveds

open-heartedly · open-heartedness

Translations (5)

fi avosydäminen (frank) · bg сърдечен (generous and kind) · fi sydämellinen (emotionally receptive) · bg откровен (frank) · fi hyväsydäminen (generous and kind)