What does candidity mean?
Candidity means (comparatively rare) candidness.
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/kænˈdɪdɪtɪ/ · noun
(comparatively rare) candidness.
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.”
Use candidity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Candidity means (comparatively rare) candidness.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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