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Correctness vs Rightness - What's the difference?

correctness | rightness |

As nouns the difference between correctness and rightness

is that correctness is freedom from error while rightness is the characteristic of being right; correctness.

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

    rightness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The characteristic of being right; correctness.
  • (countable) The result or product of being right; something correct.
  • The property of being on, or moving toward, the right.
  • * 1996 , Robert Cummins, Representations, Targets, and Attitudes (page 105)
    • I think we are inclined to think the leftness and rightness can be represented because there is a word in our language that means left'', and another that means ''right , and we understand those words.