wrongness
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈrɔŋnəs/
:
maldad
- While as a parent, you can and you should really admit where you got it wrong, that wrongness is not meant to be an eternal weapon with which to punish you.
- rightness or wrongness
- wrongness of an act
- moral wrongness
We couldn't persuade the country of the wrongness of slavery.
- We couldn't persuade the country of the wrongness of slavery.
- Because it's not just that it's wrong, like there's the the wrongness of cheating.
- While as a parent, you can and you should really admit where you got it wrong, that wrongness is not meant to be an eternal weapon with which to punish you.
- I'm saying that what you're doing indicates wrongness, and to become right you it would follow that you would act differently.
- He was treated different for that, that wrongness, right?
- Now here he was talking about the wrongness of of you know what it is that the action of faith is doing.
Examples
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Rightness and wrongness are things we feel.
Academic text (2016) -
Abortion, for example, is thought by many to be a serious moral wrong, approaching the wrongness of killing a person.
Academic text (2005) -
Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it.
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There had been no sense of wrongness in its use.
Fiction book (1992) -
We couldn't persuade the country of the wrongness of slavery.
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But here I attend chiefly to the consequences of such preferences, apart from their wrongness.
Academic text (1998) -
Utilitarianism maintains that the rightness or wrongness of conduct depends on its consequences.
Academic text (2008) -
Such wrongness, Kohke suspected, could lead to recognition of other wrongnesses and must be corrected.
Fiction book (2000) -
My view was obscured, but evidently Hu Moon sensed some wrongness and began to struggle.
Fiction book (2002) -
The community felt a deep sense of wrongness in the way the law was applied unfairly.
Synonyms
∞
3.0
Bad actions or a force that harms people
142
5.8
A wrong action that breaks moral rules or hurts other people
28
5.2
A state of being morally wrong or evil
23
6.3
Bad behavior that people see as wrong or evil
21
9.5
Very bad or unfair actions that harm people
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8.0
Behavior that is not socially acceptable
8
6.5
A quality of doing very bad things and wanting to harm people
4
9.1
Behavior that is wrong or unfair towards other people
1
7.4
Something that is not right according to law or morals
1
9.9
Very bad actions that break the law
Rude behaviour that people think is not polite
Antonyms
How Wrong
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wrongness comes from the simple word wrong plus the ending -ness, which makes a noun for a 'state' or 'quality'. So, wrongness can mean the state of being 'not right' in behaviour or by society, which is why we use it to talk about moral or social faults.