callidity

English

Etymology

Latin calliditas.

Noun

callidity (countable and uncountable, plural callidities)

1. (obsolete) craftiness, cunning
   • 1752, Christopher Smart, Poems on Several Occasions, The Hop Garden:

     Her eagle-ey'd callidity, deceit,
     And fairy fiction rais'd above her sex

References

• “callidity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.