different between uprightness vs candor

English

Etymology

From upright +? -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p??a?tn?s/

Noun

uprightness (countable and uncountable, plural uprightnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state of being moral, honest and honourable.

2. (uncountable) The state of being erect, or vertical.
3. (countable) The result or product of being upright.

Translations

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.