What's the difference between candor and frankness?

Candor


Definition:

  • (n.) Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.
  • (n.) A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As was stated earlier in this article, a most useful beacon to guide the physician in this dimly lit path is the notion that "congruence not candor" direct the disclosure.
  • (2) She added: “I think there are multiple ways to have your voice heard.” She told King about her conversations with her father, saying: “Where I disagree with my father, he knows it and I express myself with total candor.
  • (3) Factor analysis revealed five factors: outcome expectations; candor; interest in treating cancer; psychosocial concerns: role of the physician; and psychosocial concerns: importance to the patient.
  • (4) The author shares a personal glimpse of Sir Stewart's wit, candor, and gallantry, observed during her more than 15-year relationship with him as a glaucoma patient.
  • (5) Though medicine does pursue certain Cartesian goals for knowledge, such as knowledge of the patient that does not rely upon his candor, it ultimately espouses neither a Cartesian theory of knowledge nor a Cartesian theory of the body.
  • (6) Candor and awareness of the importance of the public belief in physician loyalty are seen as necessary in preventing these changes from becoming destructive of the physician-patient relationship.
  • (7) The new sexual candor has positively affected public understanding and comprehensive research, and applies to the discussion of all STDs.
  • (8) In politics or, at least, in campaign rhetoric we are seeing fewer promises and more candor; mor emphasis on truthfulness, personal integrity, and character and fewer offers to solve difficult problems.
  • (9) I suppose there's some commendable candor in hiring Obama's two most recognizably loyal aides in less than two weeks: any lingering doubt about its primary purpose as a network is dispelled, so that, I suppose, is good on some level (just as Fox's heavy reliance on long-time GOP operative Karl Rove had the same clarifying effect).
  • (10) His personal qualities, such as candor, ingenuity and intellectual honesty are recalled by his successor in the Howe Laboratory.
  • (11) Comey’s lack of candor in a classified setting, intended to brief members on the intelligence agencies’ assessment that Russia interfered in the election to benefit Trump, follows a public rebuff this week to senators seeking clarification.
  • (12) But his candor about these unorthodox ways, which borders on bravura, may inoculate him from further scrutiny.
  • (13) And yet since Trump entered the race, he has sucked up every ounce of media oxygen with his celebrity and an outlandish candor that rather than alienating supporters only endears him to them further.
  • (14) With a level of candor seen rarely in politics, he recalled a breakdown of his emotions during a recent visit to a Colorado military base when a well-wisher yelled out the name of his son and referenced his decorated military service in Iraq.
  • (15) He contends that candor and awareness of the importance of the public belief in physician loyalty are necessary to prevent social pressures from destroying the physician patient relationship.
  • (16) Approximately 75% of both teens and parents favored the increasing candor in discussing sex, abortion, and pregnancy.
  • (17) In order to achieve maximum participation and candor of study respondents, the importance and purposes of the study and the safeguards for protecting the respondents' privacy and minimizing risks must be clearly explained.
  • (18) Public frustration with his perceived lack of candor on the involvement of his staff and close associates in the closure of access lanes to the George Washington bridge in September 2013, meanwhile, produced a double-digit slide in his approval rating.
  • (19) His icy demeanor and lack of emotional candor were off-putting enough as it is, but this is also a man that was accused of raping a 19-year-old.
  • (20) I have never had a problem speaking truth to power, and I firmly believe that those in power deserve full candor and my honest assessment and recommendations,” Kelly said.

Frankness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (2) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
  • (3) • Harriet Harman gives a frank interview about the olden days, in which she reveals a passionate affair with Arthur Scargill.
  • (4) The Ajax coach Frank de Boer has confirmed that Tottenham Hotspur have approached the Amsterdam club to test his interest in coaching the club.
  • (5) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
  • (6) Absolute has raised its profile with big-name signings such as Frank Skinner and bought live Premier League football rights for the first time for this season .
  • (7) Two term newborn infants born by frank breech delivery had posterior fossa hemorrhage diagnosed by CT scan within the first 72 hours of life and underwent successful surgical drainage of hematoma.
  • (8) After the formal PIRC inquiry was triggered by the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, Bayoh’s family said police gave them five different accounts of what had happened before eventually being told late on Sunday afternoon how he died.
  • (9) To be frank, the police cannot cope with the extent of abuse on social media.
  • (10) Frankly, the pair had been at each other ever since the Frenchman had come on to the pitch.
  • (11) Moreover, S-phase prolongation was observed with the malignant changes, and the cell cycle time did not differ markedly among normal epithelium (22.8 hr), anaplastic epithelium (23.0 hr), and frank invasive carcinoma (26.1 hr).
  • (12) In any halfway-awake western nation, and, to be frank, in many reaches of British national life, this would be considered an amateurish absurdity, a guarantee of eventual failure.
  • (13) On the other hand, only limited feelings of frankness existed among the residents.
  • (14) Del Piero, who helped greatly increase the A-League’s profile during his two-year stay, was linked by the media to a managerial role at the club when Frank Farina lost his job in April 2014.
  • (15) Some Labour MPs, such as Frank Field and David Miliband, are keen on primaries.
  • (16) Activation of GV by monochromatic 450-nm radiation causes two specific DNA changes in human P3 cells in culture as shown by alkaline elution techniques: single-strand breaks (i.e., alkali-labile sites plus frank strand scissions) and DNA-to-protein covalent bond crosslinks.
  • (17) Five-year actuarial survival rates were 86.6% for frank, 98.8% for microinvasive and 98.8% for in situ carcinomas.
  • (18) "And let's be frank, we're not actually helping anyone by leaving the economic coast clear for others to provide the inward investment that often comes in from elsewhere and may represent tied aid or investment that won't help lift the poorest into employment," she said.
  • (19) But frankly we’re still so troubled by the past, it’s hard to put together our plans for the future,” he said.
  • (20) Regardless of who wins the high court case, appeals are possible and, frankly, likely."

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