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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incorrectness

Incorrectness \In`cor*rect"ness\, n. The quality of being incorrect; lack of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as, incorrectness may consist in defect or in redundance.

Wiktionary
incorrectness

n. The characteristic of being incorrect.

WordNet
incorrectness
  1. n. lack of conformity to social expectations [ant: correctness]

  2. the quality of not conforming to fact or truth [syn: wrongness] [ant: correctness, correctness]

Usage examples of "incorrectness".

Nobody tolerates that political incorrectness anymore, you little candy ass.

He is forever finding fault with me, for some incorrectness of language, and now he is taking the same liberty with you.

His critics will use the novel's sexual and political incorrectness to disguise the reality that he understood the ever-present prejudices and confusions of women and men better than any of the talk-show munchkins.

I should proceed to a view of the life, character, & doctrines of Jesus, who sensible of incorrectness of their ideas of the Deity, and of morality, endeavored to bring them to the principles of a pure deism, and juster notions of the attributes of God, to reform their moral doctrines to the standard of reason, justice & philanthropy, and to inculcate the belief of a future state.

I smiled, finding I was liking this unusual man more and more, his political incorrectness, his determination.