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Adequacy vs Correctness - What's the difference?

adequacy | correctness |

As nouns the difference between adequacy and correctness

is that adequacy is the quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs while correctness is freedom from error.

adequacy

English

Noun

(adequacies)
  • The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs.
    • His zeal is, of course, unquestionable; his adequacy, however, I doubt.

    correctness

    English

    (wikipedia correctness)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • freedom from error
  • conformity to the truth or to fact
  • conformity to recognized standards
  • (computing) The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.

    • Antonyms

    * incorrectness