candidity

== English == === Etymology === From 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.”