incorrectness

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being incorrect; want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as incorrectness may in defect or in redundance.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

wrongness badness error wrong incorrect mistake fault improper fallacy discrepancy falsity inaccuracy blunder barbarism imprecision
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Antonyms

correctness accuracy fitness closeness applicability rightness
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Hypernyms

quality impropriety improperness

Hyponyms

error erroneousness political incorrectness

Examples

That the teachings of neither our modern teachers nor preachers are "wisdom from above" is fully demonstrated. It is proved not by any personal incorrectness in their statements or mistakes in life, for "to err is but human," but by incontrovertible facts. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't. Mike Myers

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made. Robert Barany

The undersigned t rustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. Source: Internet

POLITICAL incorrectness is alive and well at the CyBC. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

incorrectly incorrectly diagnose incorrectly situated incorrespondence incorrespondency incorresponding