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correctitude

noun

Etymology

From correct + -itude.

  1. derived from correctus
  2. derived from correcter
  3. inherited from correcten
  4. suffixed as correctitude — “correct + itude”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • And these folks are worried about creeping political correctitude?"

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for correctitude. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA