Candidity
/kænˈdɪdɪtɪ/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 candidness uncountable
"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.”"
Example
More examples"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.”"
Etymology
From candid + -ity.