Definition of Correctness

1. Noun. Conformity to fact or truth.

Exact synonyms: Rightness
Generic synonyms: Quality
Attributes: Correct, Right, Incorrect, Wrong
Derivative terms: Correct, Right
Antonyms: Incorrectness, Wrongness

2. Noun. The quality of conformity to social expectations.

Definition of Correctness

1. n. The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.

Definition of Correctness

1. Noun. freedom from error ¹

2. Noun. conformity to the truth or to fact ¹

3. Noun. conformity to recognized standards ¹

4. Noun. (computing) The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Correctness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Correctness

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Literary usage of Correctness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1916)
"The correctness of these expressions was checked experimentally. ... A method is developed which may be relied upon to check the correctness of the ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"... the correctness of the judgment below must depend, areas follows: to him again. Whittle told Hartwell that it was an impossibility to let the money go ..."

3. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"... with certainty of correctness in both sense and metre: — <!,\ Л». /J.IV, afuf>aro\oi, ... correctness ..."

4. Elements of Rhetoric: Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée (1866)
"Correctness and delicacy of Taste. With this view of the development of Taste, Rhetoricians have stated the principal characteristics of Taste to be ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... of the material that we had reserved, and established the correctness of the preliminary diagnosis that the cause of death was an aortic aneurism. ..."

6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"I do not wish to insist upon the correctness of this derivation of the word gat/, for I have not the slightest authority for it ; I merely maintain that it ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... without, however, insisting on ite correctness. According to him, it was probable that the title of vice-chancellor arose in the same way as the title ..."

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