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openhearted en · ADJ

Etymology

From open + hearted.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of open-hearted.
    • Dear son, don't be openhearted [generous], for openhearted people have empty pockets. 1918, William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; Monograph of an Immigrant Group, Volume 2:
    • While we try to be openhearted to everyone around us, we can practice being openhearted to all the emotions, inner voices, and thoughts in our inner environment. 2013, Sharon Salzberg, Voices of Insight, →ISBN:
    • Drinking must be sociable, and if it escalates to a certain degree of liveliness, then it promotes the arousal of the mind and makes it sociable. Moreover, in this way it also removes the propensity for dissimulation, and makes one openhearted. 2012, Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood, Robert B. Louden, Lectures on Anthropology, →ISBN, page 78:

Forms

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more openhearted Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most openhearted Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

openheartedly · openheartedness