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correctitude

correctitude noun: the quality of being correct.

Noun

correctitude (usually uncountable, plural correctitudes)

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

Synonyms of correctitude

Forms of correctitude

pluralcorrectitudes

Origin of correctitude

From correct + -itude.

Questions about correctitude

What does correctitude mean?
Correctitude means the quality of being correct.
What part of speech is correctitude?
Correctitude is a noun.
What is the plural of correctitude?
The plural of correctitude is correctitudes.

Words near correctitude in the dictionary

  1. corrections centers
  2. corrections centre
  3. corrections centres
  4. corrections officer
  5. corrections officers
  6. correctitude
  7. correctitudes
  8. corrective
  9. corrective facilities
  10. corrective facility
  11. corrective lens

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