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Candidness vs Candidity - What's the difference?

candidness | candidity |

As nouns the difference between candidness and candidity

is that candidness is the quality of being candid while candidity is candidness.

candidness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being candid.
  • * 1985 Alfred S. Friedman - Treatment Services for Adolescent Substance Abusers
    • This is an important factor in establishing trust and may affect the adolescent's candidness and anxiety level during the session.

    Synonyms

    * (comparatively rare)

    candidity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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 .”