Word Study
rightness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rightness has 4 senses
- rightness(n = noun.attribute) Array - according with conscience or morality; Array is a kind of morality
- rightness(n = noun.attribute) appropriateness - appropriate conduct; doing the right thing; Array is a kind of correctitude, properness, propriety
- rightness(n = noun.attribute) correctness - conformity to fact or truth; Array is a kind of quality
- rightness(n = noun.attribute) justness, nicety - conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty" is a kind of conformance, conformity
Derived form adjective right4
Antonym: wrongness
Derived forms adjective right5, adjective right3
Derived form adjective right2
Antonym: wrongness
CIDE DICTIONARY
rightness, n. [AS. rihtnes.].
- Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- The quality or state of being right; right relation. [1913 Webster]"The craving for rightness with God." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
rightness
absoluteness, accuracy, attention to fact, care for truth, correctness, delicacy, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, flawlessness, literalism, literality, literalness, mathematical precision, meticulousness, niceness, nicety, perfection, preciseness, precision, refinement, right, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, severity, strictness, subtlety, textualism, the letter
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