incorrectness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English incorrect

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English incorrectness

From incorrect + -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

incorrectness (countable and uncountable, plural incorrectnesses)

1. The characteristic of being incorrect.

Synonyms

• wrongness

Antonyms

• correctness

Derived terms

• political incorrectness

Translations

the condition of being incorrect

• French: impropriété (fr) f
• Italian: improprietà (it) f, erroneità f
• Kazakh: қателік (qatelik)
• Latvian: nepareizība f, nepareizums m
• Macedonian: неточност f (netočnost)
• Manx: neureajaght f, neuyeshid m
• Polish: błędność (pl) f
• Portuguese: incorreção (pt) f
• Russian: неве́рность (ru) f (nevérnostʹ), непра́вильность (ru) f (neprávilʹnostʹ), оши́бочность (ru) f (ošíbočnostʹ)
• Thai: วิบัติ (th) (wí-bàt)