"openture" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Blend of open + closure Etymology templates: {{blend|en|open|closure}} Blend of open + closure Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} openture (uncountable)
  1. Refraining from seeking a resolution or ending for an emotionally difficult experience. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-openture-en-noun-dTBmf-9R Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "2005 October 1, Daniel Eagan, “Finding Serenity”, in Film Journal International:",
          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "2007 October 17, Paul Pearsall, “Awe”, in Health Communications:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2012, Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote, Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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