correctitude
English
Etymology
correct + -itude
Noun
correctitude (usually uncountable, plural correctitudes)
- The quality of being correct
- 1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria:
- Leopold himself must have envied such perfect correctitude; but what may be admirable in an elderly statesman is alarming in a maiden of nineteen.
- 1991 July 19, Harold Henderson, “The City File”, in Chicago Reader:
- And these folks are worried about creeping political correctitude?"
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Synonyms
- correctness