candidity

English

Etymology

candid +‎ -ity

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kăndĭʹdĭtĭ, IPA^(key): /kænˈdɪdɪtɪ/

Noun

candidity (uncountable)

1. (comparatively rare) candidness
   • 1888: Columbia Spectator, volumes 22–24, page 173 (Spectator Publishing Co.)

     One of our Sophomore specials who attends English regularly once a week, while correcting sentences in the rhetoric recitation the other day, changed the sentence, “I admire his amiableness and candidness,” to read “I admire his amiability and candidity.”