candor

4 definitions found

candor - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Candor \Can"dor\, n. [Written also candour.] [L. candor, fr.
     cand["e]re; cf. F. candeur. See candid.]
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     1. Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions)
        usullied purity; innocence. [Obs.]
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              Nor yor unquestioned integrity
              Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot
              That may take from your innocence and candor.
                                                    --Massinger.
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     2. A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom
        from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.
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              Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who
              held that side of the question.       --Whewell.
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candor - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  candor
      n 1: ability to make judgments free from discrimination or
           dishonesty [syn: fairness, fair-mindedness, candor,
           candour] [ant: unfairness]
      2: the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude
         and speech [syn: candor, candour, candidness,
         frankness, directness, forthrightness]

candor - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Candor, NC (town, FIPS 10120)
    Location: 35.29123 N, 79.74365 W
    Population (1990): 748 (326 housing units)
    Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 27229
  Candor, NY (village, FIPS 12210)
    Location: 42.22726 N, 76.33762 W
    Population (1990): 869 (344 housing units)
    Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 13743

candor - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  134 Moby Thesaurus words for "candor":
     accessibility, approachability, artlessness, austerity, baldness,
     bareness, big mouth, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness,
     candidness, childlikeness, common speech, communicativeness,
     conversableness, cricket, directness, effusion, effusiveness,
     extroversion, fair play, fair shake, fair-mindedness, fairness,
     flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue,
     flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, forthrightness,
     frankness, freedom, freeness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness,
     genuineness, gift of gab, glibness, good sportsmanship,
     gregariousness, guilelessness, gush, gushiness, homespun, honesty,
     household words, impartiality, ingenuousness, innocence, justice,
     leanness, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity,
     matter-of-factness, naiveness, naivete, naivety, naturalness,
     objectivity, open-mindedness, openheartedness, openness,
     outgoingness, outspokenness, plain English, plain dealing,
     plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness,
     plainspokenness, prolixity, prosaicness, prosiness, restrainedness,
     roundness, rustic style, severity, simpleheartedness,
     simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity,
     single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness of heart, slush,
     soberness, sociability, spareness, spate of words,
     sportsmanlikeness, sportsmanliness, sportsmanship, square deal,
     starkness, straightforwardness, talkativeness, the fair thing,
     the handsome thing, the proper thing, trustfulness,
     unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, unconstraint,
     unequivocalness, unguardedness, unimaginativeness, unpoeticalness,
     unrepression, unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint,
     unrestriction, unreticence, unsecretiveness, unsophisticatedness,
     unsophistication, unsuppression, unsuspiciousness, untaciturnity,
     unwariness, verbosity, vernacular, volubility, windiness