Candor vs Fidelity - What's the difference?
candor | fidelity |
(obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance.
The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.
Impartiality.
Faithfulness to one's duties.
Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs (except in an open marriage).
Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
* 2003 , Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Very Large Databases, Berlin, Germany, 9-12 September, 2003 , page 58:
As nouns the difference between candor and fidelity
is that candor is (obsolete) whiteness; brilliance while fidelity is faithfulness to one's duties.candor
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Alternative forms
* candour (British and Canadian)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (sincere and open in speech) honesty, sincerity, parrhesia * (impartiality) fairness, impartialityAntonyms
* (sincere and open in speech) deception, fraud, lieAnagrams
* * ----fidelity
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Noun
- the fidelity of the civil servants
- By placing them closer to the source, we can reduce the number of messages in the system and this in turn is likely to improve the fidelity of the system.