Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Skill; discernment; shrewdness. Also callidness.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete craftiness, cunning
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.
Etymologies
- Latin calliditas. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And, large though it was, it was a tiny sum when considered in its relations to Cayle Clark's callidetic index - if the callidity were due to follow a money pattern.”
“Once started on the right path, the pace of activity, the pattern of callidity, would be a direct moving cube, piling up so fast that no human brain would grasp the extent of what was happening until afterwards.”
“Several long days and night passed unmolested, all seemed to have grounded their arms of rebellion, and no callidity appeared to be going on with any of the parties.”
“Among other things," he said slowly, "the illusion energies have some qualifying effect on callidity.”
“For a reason which she considers to have been impulse, but which is traceable to his callidity, she attached him to her personal staff and he is there now.”
“He hesitated, then, "Mrs. Clark, on the day you were married you took your husband's callidity measurements and gave them to us.”
“Your husband's callidity at the time you measured him was the highest that has ever been recorded in the history of the Information Center.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘callidity’.
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-dity
absurdity, acidity, acridity, algidity, aridity, bifidity, calidity, commodity, crudity, discommodity, facundity, fecundity and 93 more...
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250 Cherry-Picked Words
Juicy words for the intermediate and advanced speller
consomme, miniaceous, nankeen, smaragdine, stramineous, vitellary, allemande, beguine, bransle, charabanc, margaritaceous, chaconne and 238 more...
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calli-, cal-
good, beautiful
callipygean, calisthenics, calligraphy, callimastian, callisteia, calliandra, Callicrates, callidity, Callimachus, calliope, callitriche, callisaurus and 10 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Verbophile's Words
callidity, evirate, calcitrate, periplus, versipel, dout, putanism, subvene, repristinate, impleach, ferruginate, incrassate and 153 more...
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-ity City
enmity, moiety, nemiety, propinquity, levity, lenity, probity, concinnity, serendipity, perspicacity, perspicuity, acuity and 55 more...
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Inteloquent
Useful or stunning intelligence and concepts in regards to logic, order, books, cleverness, planning, and academia.
indexical, corrigenda, operationalization, acumen, chaordic, stratagem, casuist, deliberative, acuity, deus ex machina, reconnoiter, mythographer and 72 more...
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pavonine Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness Nov 20, 2007