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Definition of Incorrectness
1. Noun. Lack of conformity to social expectations.
Specialized synonyms: Political Incorrectness
Antonyms: Correctness
Derivative terms: Incorrect
2. Noun. The quality of not conforming to fact or truth.
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Erroneousness, Error
Antonyms: Correctness, Rightness
Derivative terms: Incorrect, Wrong, Wrong
Definition of Incorrectness
1. n. The quality of being incorrect; want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as, incorrectness may consist in defect or in redundance.
Definition of Incorrectness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being incorrect. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incorrectness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incorrectness
Literary usage of Incorrectness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"Cross-Examination : Exposure of incorrectness in the Testimony of a Credible
Witness : incorrectness Arising from Faults of Expression. ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"The incorrectness of this position is pointed out above.56 The adoption of any
such rule would practically put an end to new trials for newly —where the ..."
3. French Painting in the Sixteenth Century by Louis Dimier (1904)
"... portrait-painting—Supposed works of Caron—Jacques Bunel—Louis Poisson—The
small gallery of the Louvre—incorrectness of the general idea of the portraits ..."
4. History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient by William Hickling Prescott (1874)
"... or one million, four hundred and seventeen thousand pounds sterling; a sum
large enough to show the incorrectness of the popular notion that little or ..."
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