different between trustiness vs candor

English

Etymology

From Middle English tristinesse, trustinesse, equivalent to trusty +? -ness.

Noun

trustiness (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being trusty.

English

Alternative forms

• candour (British and Canadian)

Etymology

From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from cande? (“I shine”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæn.d?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæn.d?/

Noun

candor (usually uncountable, plural candors) (American spelling)

1. (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 ...

2. The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]

   Synonyms: frankness, honesty, sincerity, parrhesia

   Antonyms: deception, fraud, lie

3. Impartiality.

   Synonyms: equity, fairness

Related terms

• candid

Translations

Anagrams

• Cardon, Conard, Condra, Conrad, Dacron, ancrod, cardon, dacron

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin candor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k?n?do/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kan?do?/

Noun

candor m or f (plural candors)

1. candor

Related terms

• càndid

Further reading

• “candor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “candor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “candor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “candor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From cande? (“to shine, glitter; glow”) +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kan.dor/, [?kän?d??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kan.dor/, [?k?n?d??r]

Noun

candor m (genitive cand?ris); third declension

1. a dazzling or glossy whiteness; clearness, radiance, brightness
2. fairness, beauty
3. glow, heat
4. (of speech) splendor, brilliance
5. (of mind or character) frankness, openness, candor, purity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• candor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin candor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan?do?/, [kãn??d?o?]
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

candor m (plural candores)

1. candor

Related terms

• cándido

Further reading

• “candor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.