open-earedness

Noun

open-earedness (uncountable)

1. The state of being open-eared; a willingness or interest in listening to new styles of music.
   • The links between open-earedness and age found in LeBlanc (1991), that is, the dip in open-earedness found in the middle of childhood and early adolescence, and its rebound in early adulthood, mirror the findings in the development of openness to experience in childhood and adulthood (Soto, John...2017, David J. Hargreaves, Arielle Bonneville-Roussy, “What is 'open-earedness', and how can it be measured?”, in Musicae Scientiae, volume 22, number 2, Thousand Oaks, C.A.: SAGE Publishing, →DOI...
   • In a year when the Grammys were looking to display an embrace of difference, a modicum of open-earedness, a sense that the show is taking place in the present day and not being hologrammed in from a decade or two earlier, it would have been difficult to invent a musician better suited to the...2020 January 23, Jon Caramanica, “Will Lizzo Rule the Grammys Like She Owned 2019?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023

   Antonyms:

   closed-earedness