Correctitude

Origin

correct + -itude

Full definition of correctitude

Noun

1. The quality of being correct
• 1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria Chapter , Leopold himself must have envied such perfect correctitude; but what may be admirable in an elderly statesman is alarming in a maiden of nineteen.
• 1991, July 19, Harold Henderson, The City File, And these folks are worried about creeping political correctitude?"

Synonyms

• correctness