openheartedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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openhearted (comparative more openhearted, superlative most openhearted)

1. Alternative form of open-hearted.
   • 2012, Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood, Robert B. Louden, Lectures on Anthropology, →ISBN, page 78:

     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.

   • 1918, William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; Monograph of an Immigrant Group, Volume 2:

     Dear son, don't be openhearted [generous], for openhearted people have empty pockets.

   • 2013, Sharon Salzberg, Voices of Insight, →ISBN:

     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.

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語源

From open +‎ hearted.

形容詞

open-hearted (comparative more open-hearted, superlative most open-hearted)

1. Frank and candidly straightforward
   • 2007, Annick Prieur, Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos, →ISBN, page 22:

     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.

2. Generous and kind
   • 2011, Stella Duffy, chapter 10, in Singling Out The Couples, →ISBN:

     Sally was generous and open-hearted to the point of foolishness, but that was her experience.

3. Emotionally receptive
   • 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:

     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.

   • 2013, Elina Penttinen, Joy and International Relations: A New Methodology, →ISBN:

     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.

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