Candid

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1620s, "white," from Latin candidum "white; pure; sincere, honest, upright," from candere "to shine," (see candle). In English, metaphoric extension to "frank" first recorded 1670s (compare French candide "open, frank, ingenuous, sincere"). Of photography, 1929.

SOURCE: Online Etymology Dictionary

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