openture

openture
n.
The tendency to not seek a resolution or ending for an emotionally difficult experience. Also: open-ture. [cf. closure]
Example Citations:
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.
—Oliver Burkeman, " The Hunt for Happy: http://www.theschooloflife.com/blog/2013/02/the-hunt-for-happy/", The School of Life, March 1, 2013, quoted from The Antidote, Faber & Faber, November 13, 2012
If you choose a life of awe, you will surrender the solace of certitude. You will live with more 'open-ture' 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.
—Paul Pearsall, Awe: http://books.google.com/books?id=N5D7zn9Xb10C&pg=PA3&dq=%22open-ture%22&hl=en, Health Communications, September 17, 2007
Earliest Citation:
Still, the writer and director [Joss Whedon] 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."
—Daniel Eagan, "Finding Serenity," Film Journal International, September 1, 2005
Notes:
The first citation describes openture as an "awkward neologism" (what I call an awkword), and that it is. It's also awkward etymologically, since closure is essentially a blend of close and the suffix -ure (used to denote an action or process), so by analogy openture must be opent + -ure. Opent? Let the scratching of the heads begin.
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