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Definition of Rightness
1. Noun. According with conscience or morality.
2. Noun. Appropriate conduct; doing the right thing.
Generic synonyms: Correctitude, Properness, Propriety
Antonyms: Inappropriateness
Derivative terms: Right, Right
3. Noun. Conformity to fact or truth.
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"
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
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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