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(kændəʳ)
regional note: in AM, use candor
uncountable noun
Candour is the quality of speaking honestly and openly about things.
...a brash, forceful man, noted both for his candour and his quick temper.
Synonyms: honesty, simplicity, fairness, sincerity More Synonyms of candour

candour in British English

or US candor (ˈkændə)
noun
1. 
the quality of being open and honest; frankness
2. 
fairness; impartiality
3.  obsolete
purity or brightness
Word origin
C17: from Latin candor, from candēre to be white, shine

Examples of 'candour' in a sentence
candour

Bridesmaids is a riot of bad behaviour and brutal candour.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He spoke of those aspects with great candour and warmth.
Low, Nicholas Politics, Planning and the State (1990)
With typical candour, she admits she now feels guilty over what they had to go through.
The Sun (2013)
It's brutal candour that destroys them.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
As well as the unusual candour of its writing, much of its appeal was in its contemporary feel.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Her candour is certainly unusual.
The Sun (2014)
This is something that has to be addressed with honesty and candour if the family justice system is not to suffer further loss of public confidence.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
With a candour that is unusual in most CVs, he details some of his failures.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It is a memoir full of candour, honesty, love and pain.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Then, discuss them with your typical Aries candour.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
And he was to tell the story of it with disarming candour in Glory Glory!
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He can sing a little, then, and talk with unusual candour for a man in his job.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)

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candour

British English: candour NOUN
Candour is the quality of speaking honestly and openly about things.
...a brash, forceful man, noted both for his candour and his quick temper.
  • American English: candor
  • Brazilian Portuguese: franqueza
  • Chinese: 直率
  • European Spanish: franqueza
  • French: franchise
  • German: Offenheit
  • Italian: sincerità
  • Japanese: 率直さ
  • Korean: 솔직함
  • European Portuguese: franqueza
  • Latin American Spanish: franqueza

(noun) 
Definition
honesty and straightforwardness of speech or behaviour
He spoke with disarming candour about his childhood.
Synonyms
honesty
Good communication encourages honesty in a relationship.
simplicity
fairness
sincerity
The film is made with sincerity.
impartiality
frankness
The reaction to his frankness was hostile.
directness
She spoke with a directness that made him blush.
truthfulness
I can say, with absolute truthfulness, that I did not injure her.
outspokenness
forthrightness
straightforwardness
ingenuousness
artlessness
guilelessness
openness
a relationship based on openness and trust
unequivocalness
naïveté
Opposites
prejudice
,
bias
,
cunning
,
subtlety
,
deceit
,
dishonesty
,
flattery
,
insincerity

Additional synonyms

in the sense of artlessness
Synonyms
straightforwardness,
honesty,
simplicity,
fairness,
openness,
purity,
sincerity,
candour,
frankness,
directness,
naturalness,
bluntness,
genuineness,
forthrightness,
plainness,
humbleness,
unpretentiousness,
guilelessness,
candidness,
trueness,
unaffectedness,
openheartedness,
unassumingness
in the sense of directness
She spoke with a directness that made him blush.
Synonyms
honesty,
candour,
frankness,
sincerity,
plain speaking,
bluntness,
outspokenness,
forthrightness,
straightforwardness
in the sense of frankness
The reaction to his frankness was hostile.
Synonyms
outspokenness,
openness,
candour,
truthfulness,
plain speaking,
bluntness,
forthrightness,
laying it on the line,
ingenuousness,
absence of reserve

Synonyms of 'candour'

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