openture
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Refraining from seeking a resolution or ending for an emotionally difficult experience.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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 closure here. But having killed Buffy twice, I’m also a great proponent of openture.""
- "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 for very long."
- "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. Yes, it’s an awkward neologism; but its very awkwardness is a reminder of the spirit that it expresses, which includes embracing imperfection, and easing up on the search for neat solutions."