rightness
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈraɪtnəs/
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rectitud
- This time, nobody can dispute the rightness of what we're doing.
- goodness and rightness
- moral rightness
- sense of rightness
So that would be maintaining rightness of will for its own sake.
- So that would be maintaining rightness of will for its own sake.
- He's just talking about rightness or rectitude per SE.
- Or if you don't like the word virtue, say moral rightness or intrinsic value, right?
- So rightness lies not in the act.
- Not realizing what is triggering them to force their rightness, their things, their judgement on to you.
- It takes as its primary notion not the notion of goodness, but rather the notion of rightness.
- This week we saw that foreign affairs, like life, is a moral enterprise and moral rightness is a source of social power and fighting morale.
- You might have to surrender, you know, a sense of rightness or justice sometimes and just get just just to be clean, just to be free.
- They are so firmly entrenched in their rightness and may even believe that they are great people who have tons of empathy that it feels almost delusional.
- And and this conferred on them a a real goodness, a warrior status and, you know, and an unqualified rightness.
- This is a this is the source of the rightness in the case of rich and poor.
- But like what we do with that rightness is on the record and compassion is always important.
Examples
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The committee reached a consensus on the rightness of the new policy, believing it would benefit everyone.
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Then the war in Vietnam destroyed our faith in the rightness of government action.
Academic text (2005) -
Justice is rightness of will kept for its own sake.
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You had plain, decent, everyday common rightness, and this country could use some of that.
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Hope that the rightness of the decisions we make now will be borne out in the future.
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Then they were thunderstruck by the sheer rightness of it.
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The sensation in each case is one of freedom, rightness, and eloquence.
Academic text (1991) -
There was an orderliness, a rightness to the prospect that sent a shiver of pleasure through him.
Fiction book (2002) -
Yes, we've disagreed, even fought, but I would rather have someone... who opposed me out of an honest belief in the rightness of his cause... than someone who was always on my side because it was expected, required.
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Many people debate the rightness of ethical decisions, weighing morals against potential consequences.
Synonyms
∞
2.5
Fair treatment of people and the courts that decide it
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3.8
A good personal quality like honesty or kindness
236
1.9
Treating people equally and without bias
83
6.5
Being good and fair in how you act
82
1.0
Kind, honest, and fair behaviour in a person
9
4.1
The quality of being suitable for a situation
6
8.8
Being honest and doing what is right
1
5.7
A state of being fair and morally right
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5.6
Being honest and doing the right thing
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6.9
Being honest and doing what is right
Being morally and legally correct and fair
Being very good at doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
A quality of acting in a morally right way
A quality of being honest and fair that earns respect
Being correct and appropriate for a situation
Antonyms
How Just
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rightness comes from the old word right, which meant 'straight', 'proper', or 'fair' and appears in words like righteous and upright. So rightness is about doing what is morally correct.