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callidity

callidity noun: craftiness, cunning.

Noun

callidity (countable and uncountable, plural callidities)

  1. (obsolete) craftiness, cunning
    • Her eagle-ey'd callidity, deceit,
      And fairy fiction rais'd above her sex1752, Christopher Smart, Poems on Several Occasions, The Hop Garden

Forms of callidity

pluralcallidities

Origin of callidity

Latin calliditas.

Questions about callidity

What does callidity mean?
Callidity means craftiness, cunning.
What part of speech is callidity?
Callidity is a noun.
What is the plural of callidity?
The plural of callidity is callidities.

Words near callidity in the dictionary

  1. Callicutt
  2. Callicutts
  3. callid
  4. callidin
  5. callidities
  6. callidity
  7. callidulid
  8. callidulids
  9. Callie
  10. Callie Cat
  11. Callier

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