Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being correct, or in conformity with truth, morality, propriety, or custom; conformity to any set of rules or with a model; accuracy, exactness, or precision: as, correctness of life or of conduct; correctness in speech or in writing; correctness of taste or of design; the correctness of a copy.
Wiktionary
- n. freedom from error
- n. conformity to the truth or to fact
- n. conformity to recognized standards
- n. computing The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being correct.
WordNet 3.0
- n. conformity to fact or truth
- n. the quality of conformity to social expectations
Etymologies
- From correct + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Changing Cap to a black guy for political correctness is just stupid.”
“Political correctness is literally killing people in our country, in this case, killing our military.”
“Later in the chapter Nelson allows that while political correctness is not the “all defining campus cultural force the right makes it out to be, it does operate, in some contexts absurdly.””
“Whether it's people walking off The View when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.”
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“Political correctness is a real drag sometimes. paintbox”
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“At bedrock, political correctness is about striving to express respect and kindness according to cultural values which may vary from the ones you were raised with.”
“For example, if ultracalvinists are Christians, "political correctness" is religious orthodoxy.”
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“Political correctness is an abomination to all free societies and will prove to be the undoing of the life style that we have enjoyed for so long.”
“No amount of political correctness is going to make the answer more yes or more no.”
“The rest you say about ACPO, the Government and political correctness is perhaps true.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘correctness’.
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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HorsesintheSouth
Words pertaining to horses, equines, equestrians
horse, equine, equestrian, dressage, hunter, jumper, puissance, capriole, sidepass, levade, augurian, coop and 296 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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