- candor
- n1. frankness, forthrightness, straightforwardness, candidness, calling a spade a spade, Sl. telling it like it is; plain-speaking, plain-spokenness, downrightness, outrightness, explicitness, unequivo-calness; outspokenness, freeness, free-spokenness, free-speaking, nonreticence, boldness, unreserve, unrestraint, unconstraint; bluntness, bluffness, brusqueness, tactlessness.2. openness, open-heartedness, transparency; guile-lessness, ingenuousness, sincerity, sincereness, artlessness, naivete1, na'iveness, simpleness, undeceptiveness, undeceitfulness.3. honesty, honorableness, justness, fairness, square-dealing, plain-dealing, square-shooting; impartiality, impartialness, equitableness, objectivity, objectiveness; open-mindedness, freedom from bias or prejudice.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.