Usually means: Avoiding language that offends others.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word political correctness:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. political correctness: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. political correctness: Merriam-Webster
  3. political correctness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. political correctness: Collins English Dictionary
  5. political correctness: Vocabulary.com
  6. political-correctness: Wordnik
  7. political correctness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. political correctness: Wiktionary
  9. political correctness: Dictionary.com
  10. Political correctness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. political correctness: Rhymezone
  12. Political Correctness (f), political correctness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. political correctness: FreeDictionary.org
  14. political correctness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. political correctness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. political correctness: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. political correctness: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. political correctness: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. political-correctness: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (political correctness)

noun:  (uncountable) Avoidance of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude, marginalize or insult people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.
noun:  (countable) The result or product of being politically correct.

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