correctness
/kəˈrɛktnəs
/noun [mass noun]
1The quality or state of being free from error; accuracy: there was evidence to support the correctness of the identification...
- This is the critical result which confirms the correctness of the calculated viewpoints and determines the sizes of the resulting projected images.
- The problem is that there is no positive evidence for this view, other than the geometrical correctness of his rendering.
- I want the company to keep that honesty and to have a real understanding of the rules of classical ballet and of correctness of presentation.
1.1The quality of being right in an opinion or judgement: he is trying to challenge the correctness of his criminal conviction...
- You could make a few arguments for the correctness of that dramatic choice in the film.
- I must confess that in the course of the investigation I have become more and more confident of the correctness of this idea.
- We can only infer the correctness of our claims based on whether they are convincing or not.
1.2Conformity to accepted social standards: the character was played with stuffy correctness...
- The politics of correctness decrees it.
- When something completely throws you off guard, it jars your sense of correctness.
- His shift from inscrutable correctness to open resentment and then to a kind of familiarity is both compelling and hilarious.
1.3chiefly North American Conformity to a particular political or ideological orthodoxy: high-end environmental correctness has a price...See also political correctness.
- But the cure for double standards is not to compound them by sacrificing yet another innocent to ideological correctness.
- It's to do with setting the world an example in environmental correctness.
- People want the types of cars and trucks that fail the test of environmental correctness by being too large or by using fossil fuels.