candidity

English

Etymology

candid +‎ -ity

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: kăndĭʹdĭtĭ, IPA^(key): /kænˈdɪdɪtɪ/

Noun

candidity (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.”

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