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openture

openture noun: refraining from seeking a resolution or ending for an emotionally difficult experience.

Noun

openture (uncountable)

  1. Refraining from seeking a resolution or ending for an emotionally difficult experience.
    • Still, the writer and director jokingly cautions that Serenity is not the start of a trilogy. “If I never got to shoot anything of Serenity again, I would still feel that I had told my story and I had given the actors what they needed and the fans what they needed and myself what I needed. There is...2005 October 1, Daniel Eagan, “Finding Serenity”, in Film Journal International
    • If you choose a life of awe, you will surrender the solace of certitude. You will live with more openture than closure and, unless you can learn to find a strange, exciting comfort in being presented with and grappling with the tremendous mysteries life offers, you will seldom feel calm or at ease...2007 October 17, Paul Pearsall, “Awe”, in Health Communications

Examples of openture in a sentence

  • But having killed Buffy twice, I’m also a great proponent of openture."2005 October 1, Daniel Eagan, “Finding Serenity”, in Film Journal International:
  • To use an old cliché of therapy-speak, we spend too much of our lives seeking “closure”….What we need more of, instead, is what the psychologist Paul Pearsall called openture.2012, Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote, Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, →ISBN:

Origin of openture

Blend of open + closure.

Questions about openture

What does openture mean?
Openture means refraining from seeking a resolution or ending for an emotionally difficult experience.
How do you use openture in a sentence?
But having killed Buffy twice, I’m also a great proponent of openture."
What part of speech is openture?
Openture is a noun.

Words near openture in the dictionary

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  8. openwash
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  10. openwashes
  11. openwashing

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