different between punishment vs correction

English

Etymology

From Middle English punishement, punyschment, punyschement, ponyshemente, from Old French punissement, from punir (“to punish”), synchronically equivalent to punish +? -ment. Compare the English nouns punishing and punition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: pun?ish?ment

Noun

punishment (countable and uncountable, plural punishments)

1. The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.

2. A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

3. A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
4. (figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling

Synonyms

• castigation
• punition
• beating

Antonyms

• reward

Hyponyms

• retribution
• corporal punishment
• mirror punishment

Derived terms

• brute for punishment

Related terms

• punishable
• punisher
• punishing
• punitive
• impunity

Translations

See also

• telishment

Anagrams

• unshipment

English

Alternative forms

• correxion (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French correccion (French correction), from Latin corr?cti?. Doublet of correctio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k????k??n/
• Hyphenation: cor?rec?tion
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

correction (countable and uncountable, plural corrections)

1. The act of correcting.
2. A substitution for an error or mistake.
3. (chiefly in the plural) Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
4. An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
5. A decline in a stock market price after a large rise.
6. (procedure word, military) a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted

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Translations

Further reading

• correction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corr?cti?, corr?cti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.??k.sj??/

Noun

correction f (plural corrections)

1. correction (all senses)
2. propriety (quality of being proper or correct)

Derived terms

• maison de correction

Related terms

• correct
• correcteur
• correctif
• corriger

Further reading

• “correction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).