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Candor vs Lying - What's the difference?

candor | lying |

As nouns the difference between candor and lying

is that candor is (obsolete) whiteness; brilliance while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

As a verb lying is

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candor

English

Alternative forms

* candour (British and Canadian)

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance.
  • The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.
  • Impartiality.

    • Synonyms

    * (sincere and open in speech) honesty, sincerity, parrhesia * (impartiality) fairness, impartiality

    Antonyms

    * (sincere and open in speech) deception, fraud, lie

    Related terms

    * candid

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    lying

    English

    (wikipedia lying)

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?