'non-corrective' originates from Modern English, formed by the negative prefix 'non-' (from Latin 'non', meaning 'not') attached to 'corrective' (from Latin 'correctivus' via French), where 'corrective' relates to 'corrigere' meaning 'to make right.'

'corrective' derived from Latin 'correctivus' (from 'corrigere' = 'com-' + 'regere'), passed into Old French as 'correctif' and then into Middle and Modern English as 'corrective'; the prefix 'non-' was later affixed in Modern English to create the compound 'non-corrective'.

Originally, 'corrective' meant 'serving to correct or amend'; with the addition of the negative prefix 'non-', 'non-corrective' came to mean 'not serving to correct'—a straightforward negation of the original sense.