candidity

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English

Etymology

candid +‎ -ity

Pronunciation

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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.”
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