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How to pronounce correctness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms rightness
Type of quality
Derivation correct
Type Words
Type of propriety, properness, correctitude
Has types political correctness, political correctitude, impeccability, faultlessness
Derivation correct

Examples of correctness

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If you went to watch X-men expecting historical correctness then you are a fool.
From the guardian.co.uk
There is no balance in the media just this mindless ode to political correctness.
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
These norms have disappeared in a cloud of diversity and political correctness.
From the washingtontimes.com
Strickland is well known for taking political correctness to a sickening extreme.
From the toledoblade.com
Political correctness ventures into many areas of life under differing agendas.
From the thestate.com
These are not matters of opinion nor are they matters of political correctness.
From the scienceblogs.com
I'm againist political correctness, if it takes anybody freedom of speech away.
From the economist.com
One may ignore the squibbles over the correctness of the implied loss estimate.
From the economist.com
She wondered if political correctness had intervened in one version or another.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Conformity to fact or truth
  • The quality of conformity to social expectations
  • In theoretical computer science, correctness of an algorithm is asserted when it is said that the algorithm is correct with respect to a specification. Functional correctness refers to the input-output behaviour of the algorithm (i.e., for each input it produces the correct output).
  • The word orthodox, from Greek orthodoxos "having the right opinion", from orthos ("right", "true", "straight") + doxa ("opinion" or "praise", related to dokein, "to think"), is typically used to mean the adherence to well-researched and well-thought-out accepted norms, especially in religion.
  • Data matches the specification for that field.
  • While this word is usually translated as "righteousness," the more concrete Hebraic meaning is "correctness," in the sense of walking in the "correct" path.
  • The degree to which software conforms to its specification.
  • Displays the potential data sharing problems based on the parallel site, task, lock, and other annotations. It includes a source view that helps you locate the sharing problems in your source code. After you modify source code to fix sharing problems, run the Correctness and Suitability tools again.
  • The straightness of the action of the limbs (e.g., faults would be winging, paddling, ringing hocks). Not the same as Purity. Dressage judges deal with Correctness only indirectly; that is, to the degree that it affects the purity or quality of the gait. ...