open heart
Receptive to others
Open heart describes a state of emotional receptivity and vulnerability—being willing to feel deeply, trust freely, and connect without defensiveness.
Someone with an open heart approaches others generously and without suspicion: She welcomed the stranger with an open heart.
In medicine, open-heart surgery involves operating on the heart while the chest cavity is opened and blood flow is maintained artificially.
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- surgeryInvasive medical procedure
- cardiacPertaining to the heart
- sincereGenuinely felt, not feigned
- honestFree from deception
genuine · bypass · transplant · compassion · warmth · emotional · emotionally available · exposed · trusting · loving · tender · raw · authentic · coronary · operation · empathy · unguarded · receptive
- compassionsympathy, empathy, caring, kindness, tenderness
- kindnesskindness, niceness, goodness, gentleness, empathy
- surgeriessurgery, appendectomy, hysterectomy, minor surgery, elective surgery
- surgerysurgery, surgeon, surgeons, operation, incision
- watch partshands, hand, dial, hour hand, minute hand
- heart carecardiac surgery, coronary bypass, pacemaker, defibrillator, coronary stent
open hearthardened heart
Emotional numbness by choice
defensive · closed off · emotionally unavailable · shut down · impenetrable
open heartdistrustful
Lacking faith in others
wary · guarded · cynical · mistrustful · skeptical
open heartclosed off
Barred from access
bottled up · repressed · stiff upper lip · poker face · inscrutable