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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

correctitude en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From correct + -itude.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The quality of being correct
    • And these folks are worried about creeping political correctitude?" 1991 July 19, Harold Henderson, “The City File”, in Chicago Reader:
    • 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:

Forms

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Synonyms

correctness