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   Cor·rect·ness

   /kəˈrek(t)nəs/

   

   noun

   • 1. the quality or state of being free from error; accuracy: "there was evidence to support the correctness of the identification"
   • ▪ the quality of being right in an opinion or judgment: "he is trying to challenge the correctness of his criminal conviction"
   • ▪ conformity to accepted social standards: "the character was played with stuffy correctness"
   • ▪ conformity to a particular political or ideological orthodoxy: "high-end environmental correctness has a price"

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   • correct usually implies freedom from fault or error. accurate implies fidelity to fact or truth attained by exercise of care. exact stresses a very strict agreement with fact, standard, or truth. precise adds to exact an emphasis on sharpness of definition or delimitation.

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