what you call it is semantics
It's not semantics, particularly if you are trying to show compliance with a standard. This in fact is, in my opinion, one of the worst problems organizations face due to misunderstanding of the concepts.
If you call an NC a corrective action directly, by the definition, this action has to eliminate the cause of the NC to prevent recurrence. EVEN if there's no way or need to do that. Usually what I see is organizations doing this and then struggling to find an action (and most of the time in the end what they do is only a correction, not a corrective action).
If you follow the steps from NC, to action on EV, to evaluation of root cause, to decision if a CA is needed or not, this does not happen.