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Decorum vs Correctness - What's the difference?

decorum | correctness |

As nouns the difference between decorum and correctness

is that decorum is decorum while correctness is freedom from error.

decorum

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Appropriate social behavior; propriety
  • * 2010 — , This Isn't What It Looks Like , ch. 4
    • It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.
  • (countable) A convention of social behavior

    • Related terms

    * decorous

    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