correctitude

English

Etymology

correct +‎ -itude

Pronunciation

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Noun

correctitude (usually uncountable, plural correctitudes)

1. The quality of being correct
   • 1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria‎^[1]:

     Leopold himself must have envied such perfect correctitude; but what may be admirable in an elderly statesman is alarming in a maiden of nineteen.

   • 1991 July 19, Harold Henderson, “The City File”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     And these folks are worried about creeping political correctitude?"

Synonyms

• correctness