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Isabel duncan Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Is "closeness" / "closedness" ok?

Hi!

I am trying to find the opposite of "openness", in describing mainly a social-political system, in a context like this:

"The openness of the system was proved by the easy acceptance of foreign workforce"

Is the antonym of "openness" - "closeness", "closedness" or smth else?

Thanks a lot!
  

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Hello, Isabel - and welcome to English Forums. Closeness is wrong because it means intimacy. Closedness is a good coinage; it is understandable in your context.

— Mister Micawber

  • Hello, Isabel - and welcome to English Forums.
  • Closeness is wrong because it means intimacy.
  • Closedness is a good coinage; it is understandable in your context.
  • You might also consider exclusiveness, xenophobia, parochiality.
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Hello, Isabel - and welcome to English Forums.

Closeness is wrong because it means intimacy. Closedness is a good coinage; it is understandable in your context. You might also consider exclusiveness, xenophobia, parochiality.
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closedness is common in mathematics and science:

"On the Closedness of the Sum of Two Closed Operators"
Giovanni Dore and Alberto Venni
http://junon.u-3mrs.fr/monniaux/DV87.pdf
9 Springer-Verlag 1987

On a closedness theorem
Abstract: In [1] several conditions are d
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