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rightness

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right·ness  (rtns)
n.
The state or quality of being right.
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Noun1.rightness - according with conscience or morality
morality - concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct
wrongness - contrary to conscience or morality
2.rightnessrightness - appropriate conduct; doing the right thing
appropriateness
correctitude, properness, propriety - correct or appropriate behavior
3.rightness - conformity to fact or truth
correctness
quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
incorrectness, wrongness - the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
4.rightness - conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty"
justness, nicety
conformance, conformity - correspondence in form or appearance
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Here was a boy that was respectable and well brung up; and had a character to lose; and folks at home that had characters; and he was bright and not leather-headed; and knowing and not ignorant; and not mean, but kind; and yet here he was, without any more pride, or rightness, or feel- ing, than to stoop to this business, and make himself a shame, and his family a shame, before everybody.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
She could not see the world divided into separate compartments of good people and bad people, any more than she could believe so implicitly in the rightness of her own thought as to wish to bring the population of the British Isles into agreement with it.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
But he was convinced of the rightness of his position.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
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