Candidity

//kænˈdɪdɪtɪ// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 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.”"

Synonyms

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candidnesscandidness

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"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.

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