correctitude
nounEtymology From correct + -itude.
1
Usually 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.1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria:
- And these folks are worried about creeping political correctitude?"1991 July 19, Harold Henderson, “The City File”, in Chicago Reader:
- Synonyms
- correctness