Meanings
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1
noun
The quality of being free from mistakes; being right.
The teacher checked the correctness of every answer on the test.
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2
noun
The quality of following accepted social rules or standards.
Political correctness shapes how many people speak in public today.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
1
noun
· the quality of being free...
rightness
Opposites
Word family
Derived forms
hyper-correctnesspseudocorrectness
Related forms
correctedness
Etymology
From correct + -ness.