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Definition 2024

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.”