candidity
English
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kăndĭʹdĭtĭ, IPA(key): /kænˈdɪdɪtɪ/
Noun
editcandidity (uncountable)
- (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.”
- 1888: Columbia Spectator, volumes 22–24, page 173 (Spectator Publishing Co.)