political correctness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From politically correct + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) An avoidance of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude, marginalize or insult people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.
Political correctness cripples discourse, creates ugly language and is generally stupid.
2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 72:I mean, people who talk about political correctness as being a kind of thought police have no idea of what a thought police is. But political correctness does have the same mentality. It means that intellectual argument is doomed. Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there's no such thing as objectivity—unless of course you're politically okay, in which case you can be objective. Any child can see through that, but many adults can't.
2002 October, Christopher Hitchens, “The Power of Facing”, in The Atlantic:The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones.
1991 May 4, George H. W. Bush, “President George H.W. Bush's commencement address at the University of Michigan”, in The Michigan Daily:
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(uncountable) An avoidance of expressions or actions that are disadvantageous or disquieting to institutions or authorities.
Methodological considerations are further complicated by implications of political correctness in evaluating texts which, aside from their history and original form, have become accepted in a certain recension (vulgata) by institutions (typically, the national churches) which, in the opinion of some scholars, should be credited with a special status.
2020, Alessandro Bausi, “7.5 Philological practices: Ethiopic”, in Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 481:
- (countable) The result or product of being politically correct.
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| political correctnesses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (44)
pt correção política (being politically correct) · ja ポリティカル・コレクトネス (being politically correct) · fr rectitude politique (being politically correct) · az politkorrektlik (being politically correct) · ko 정치적(政治的) 올바름 (being politically correct) · es correctitud política (being politically correct) · az siyasi doğruluq (being politically correct) · tr siyaseten doğruluk (being politically correct) · az siyasi düzgünlük (being politically correct) · nl politieke correctheid (being politically correct) · fi poliittinen korrektius (being politically correct) · de politische Korrektheit (being politically correct) · ja 政治的正しさ (being politically correct) · da politisk korrekthed (being politically correct) · lv politkorektums (being politically correct) · cs politická korektnost (being politically correct) · ka პოლიტიკური კორექტულობა (being politically correct) · tr politik doğruculuk (being politically correct) · hu politikai korrektség (being politically correct) · tr siyasi doğruculuk (being politically correct) · ka პოლიტკორექტულობა (being politically correct) · nn politisk korrektheit (being politically correct) · es corrección política (being politically correct) · id pengoreksian politik (being politically correct) · gl corrección política (being politically correct) · mk политичка коректност (being politically correct) · el πολιτική ορθότητα (being politically correct) · de PC (being politically correct) · yue 政治正確 /政治正确 (being politically correct) · nb politisk korrekthet (being politically correct) · eo politika ĝusteco (being politically correct) · ro corectitudine politică (being politically correct) · ms pembaikan politik (being politically correct) · de Political Correctness (being politically correct) · ga ceartaiseacht pholaitiúil (being politically correct) · ru полити́ческая корре́ктность (being politically correct) · ru политкорре́ктность (being politically correct) · sv politisk korrekthet (being politically correct) · pl poprawność polityczna (being politically correct) · bg полити́ческа коре́ктност (being politically correct) · ja ポリコレ (being politically correct) · mk политичка исправност (being politically correct) · cmn 政治正確 /政治正确 (being politically correct) · is pólitískur rétttrúnaður (being politically correct)