candidness

Other forms of candidness

plural

candidnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about candidness

What does candidness mean?

candidness means "the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech".

How many syllables are in candidness?

candidness has 3 syllables: can-did-ness. The stress falls on "can".

What is another word for candidness?

Close synonyms include candor, candour, frankness, directness, forthrightness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is candidness a common word?

candidness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.