candour
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General noun
The quality of being open, honest, and frank in expression.
I appreciated her candour when she admitted the plan had flaws.
Medicine noun
The quality of being open, honest, and straightforward in what one says.
Professional duty of candour means we tell patients honestly when something has gone wrong.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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