Definition of Rightness

1. Noun. According with conscience or morality.

Generic synonyms: Morality
Attributes: Right, Wrong
Derivative terms: Right
Antonyms: Wrongness

2. Noun. Appropriate conduct; doing the right thing.
Exact synonyms: Appropriateness
Generic synonyms: Correctitude, Properness, Propriety
Antonyms: Inappropriateness
Derivative terms: Right, Right

3. Noun. Conformity to fact or truth.
Exact synonyms: Correctness
Generic synonyms: Quality
Attributes: Correct, Right, Incorrect, Wrong
Derivative terms: Correct, Right
Antonyms: Incorrectness, Wrongness

4. Noun. Conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety. "It was performed with justness and beauty"
Exact synonyms: Justness, Nicety
Generic synonyms: Conformance, Conformity
Derivative terms: Just

Definition of Rightness

1. n. Straightness; as, the rightness of a line.

Definition of Rightness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being right; correctness. ¹

2. Noun. The result or product of being right. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rightness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rightness

righthander
rightie
righties
righting
righting reflexes
rightings
rightio
rightish
rightism
rightisms
rightist
rightists
rightless
rightly
rightmost
rightness (current term)
rightnesses
righto
rightos
rights
rights-of-way
rights issue
rights of entry
rights of reentry
rights of way
rights offering
rightsholder
rightsholders
rightsize
rightsized

Literary usage of Rightness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modes and Morals by Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920)
"As if a vorld of concrete things were to be gathered into the titular abstraction; or as if Kipling's rightness were presently to be proved remarkable in ..."

2. Christian Ethics: Or, The True Moral Manhood and Life of Duty. A Text-book by Daniel Seely Gregory (1883)
"THE SUPREME RULE OF rightness. HAVING ascertained that rightness is the supreme end of moral action, or that at which the agent is morally bound to aim in ..."

3. The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick (1901)
"None the less is it fundamentally opposed to Common Sense; since the very notion of subjective rightness or goodness of will implies an objective standard, ..."

4. Problems in Ethics, Or, Grounds for a Code of Rules for Moral Conduct by John Steinfort Kedney (1900)
"Under the Utilitarian system the former depends upon the latter; yet all the objective rightness that is possible may be without the other. ..."

5. The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick (1890)
"In the former case it is the conduciveness to pleasure of certain kinds of action that is methodically ascertained: in the latter case, their rightness: ..."

6. The Life and Light of Men by John Young (1866)
"The more general word " rightness " is unquestionably as literal a translation as ... Holiness is rightness, rightness in the highest sense of all ..."

7. The Grand Strategy of Evolution: The Social Philosophy of a Biologist by William Patten (1920)
"... of Mental rightness through Education—The Creative Value of Truth as the Expression of a "Natural Creative Law—The Cooperative Factor, Mental and Moral, ..."

8. Principles and Practice of Morality: Or, Ethical Principles Discussed and by Ezekiel Gilman Robinson (1888)
"Their rightness and justness; 2. Their relation to other mental ... SECTION I. — rightness and Justness of our Moral Self- Judgments, § 42. ..."

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