(n.) The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.
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absoluteness, attention to detail, attention to fact, care for truth, circumstantiality, conscientiousness, correctness, criticality, criticalness, definiteness, delicacy, detail, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exquisiteness, faithfulness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, fussiness, literalism, literality, literalness, mathematical precision, meticulousness, minuteness, minuteness of detail, niceness, nicety, particularity, particularness, perfection, preciseness, precisianism, precision, punctiliousness, punctuality, refinement, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, severity, specificity, strictness, subtlety, textualism, the letter
