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What is the noun for hypercorrection?

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hypercorrection
  1. (linguistics) The use of a nonstandard form due to a belief that it is more formal or more correct than the corresponding standard form.
  2. (linguistics) A nonstandard form so used.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. hyperurbanism, overcorrection
  4. Examples:
      5. “Committing such a hypercorrection in an anti-elitist discourse subverts the argument.”
      “It's clearly not hypercorrection, since the move is away from a more standard variant.”
      “Presaging modern spellchecker-generated errors, someone at the Times apparently committed an editorial hypercorrection.”
hypercorrectness
  1. The state or condition of being hypercorrect.
hypercorrections
  1. plural of hypercorrection
  2. Synonyms:
      3. hyperurbanisms, overcorrection
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