Noun
candor (usually uncountable, plural candors) (American spelling)
- (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity. [c. 1500–?]
1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "To his Booke":Whilst thou didst keep thy Candor undefil'd,
Deerly I lov'd thee; as my first-born child […]
- The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]
- Synonyms: frankness, honesty, sincerity, parrhesia
- Antonyms: deception, fraud, lie
- Impartiality.
- Synonyms: equity, fairness
Usage notes
Sense 2 can be used as the abstract noun equivalent of candid, i.e. “the state of being candid”.
Translations
sincere and open in speech, honesty in expression
- Bulgarian: искреност (bg) f (iskrenost), честност (bg) f (čestnost), откровеност (bg) f (otkrovenost)
- Catalan: candor m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 坦率 (zh) (tǎnshuài), 直率 (zh) (zhíshuài)
- Czech: upřímnost (cs) f
- Dutch: openheid (nl), openhartigheid (nl), eerlijkheid (nl), oprechtheid (nl), onbevangenheid (nl)
- Finnish: vilpittömyys (fi), suoruus (fi)
- French: candeur (fr) f
- German: Aufrichtigkeit (de) f, Freimut (de) m, Redlichkeit (de) f, Ehrlichkeit (de) f, Offenheit (de) f, Freimütigkeit (de) f, Offenherzigkeit f
- Greek: ειλικρίνεια (el) f (eilikríneia), ευθύτητα (el) f (efthýtita)
- Hungarian: nyíltság (hu), őszinteség (hu)
- Latin: candor m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oppriktighet m or f, frimodighet m or f, åpenhjertighet m or f, åpenhet (no) m or f
- Persian: خلوص (fa) (xolus)
- Polish: szczerość (pl) f, otwartość (pl) f, uczciwość (pl) f
- Portuguese: franqueza (pt) f
- Russian: прямота́ (ru) f (prjamotá), че́стность (ru) f (čéstnostʹ)
- Spanish: candor (es) m
- Turkish: içtenlik (tr)
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Etymology
From candeō (“to shine, glitter; glow”) + -or.
References
- “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- candor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- candor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kanˈdoɾ/ [kãn̪ˈd̪oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: can‧dor