candor
noun
he spoke with a degree of candor unusual in political life:
frankness, openness, honesty, candidness, truthfulness, sincerity, forthrightness, directness, lack of restraint, straightforwardness, plain-spokenness, plain dealing, plainness, calling a spade a spade, unreservedness, bluffness, bluntness, outspokenness;
informal telling it like it is.
▷antonyms guardedness, evasiveness, insincerity.