correctitude

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noun

The quality of being correct

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correctnessproprietyproperness
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Meanings

nouncorrectitude (usually uncountable, plural correctitudes)

plural correctitudes

  1. uncountableusuallyThe quality of being correct

    And these folks are worried about creeping political correctitude?"

    1991 July 19, Harold Henderson, “The City File”, in Chicago Reader
    1 more example

    Leopold himself must have envied such perfect correctitude; but what may be admirable in an elderly statesman is alarming in a maiden of nineteen.

    1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria

    Synonyms: correctness

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe quality of being correct

Similar
correctness

More synonyms by meaning

nouncorrect or appropriate behavior

Similar
proprietyproperness
Broader
demeanordemeanourbehavior
Also see
propernesspropriety

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From correct + -itude.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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