'Rightness' definitions:
Definition of 'rightness'
(from WordNet)
noun
According with conscience or morality [ant: wrongness]
noun
Appropriate conduct; doing the right thing [syn: appropriateness, rightness] [ant: inappropriateness, wrongness]
noun
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Definition of 'Rightness'
From: GCIDE
- Rightness \Right"ness\, n. [AS. rihtnes.] Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The quality or state of being right; right relation. [1913 Webster]
- The craving for rightness with God. --J. C. Shairp. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rightness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Rightness'
- At all right,
- By right,
- By rights,
- Right,
- Right off,
- Righted,
- Rightful,
- Rightfully,
- Rightfulness,
- Righting,
- Rightly,
- To rights,
- all right,
- in her own right,
- in his own right,
- in its own right,
- just right,
- not right,
- own right,
- right on,
- At right angles,
- Bill of Rights,
- By good rights,
- Declaration of rights,
- Divine right,
- Heritable rights,
- Mineral right,
- Patent right,
- Personal rights,
- Petition of right,
- Right Center,
- Right along,
- Right and left,
- Right angle,
- Right ascension,
- Right away,
- Right bower,
- Right cone,
- Right cylinder,
- Right descension,
- Right hand,
- Right honorable,
- Right line,
- Right of drain,
- Right of drip,
- Right of nullification,
- Right of search,
- Right of support,
- Right of the tabouret,
- Right of visit,
- Right of way,
- Right prism,
- Right pyramid,
- Right sailing,
- Right sphere,
- Right whale,
- Right-about,
- State rights,
- States' rights,
- The Petition of Right,
- To dress to the right,
- To put to rights,
- To right a vessel,
- To right the helm,
- To set right,
- To set to rights,
- Writ of right,
- accordance of rights,
- by right of office,
- civil right,
- civil rights,
- conjugal right,
- exclusive right,
- hard right,
- human right,
- in her right mind,
- in his right mind,
- in one's own right,
- in their right minds,
- legal right,
- natural right,
- preemptive right,
- property right,
- put right,
- put to rights,
- radical right,
- religious right,
- right atrium,
- right bank,
- right brain,
- right field,
- right fielder,
- right hander,
- right hemisphere,
- right in rem,
- right mind,
- right minded,
- right of action,
- right of election,
- right of entry,
- right of offset,
- right of privacy,
- right perpendicular,
- right smart,
- right sort,
- right stage,
- right to an attorney,
- right to liberty,
- right to life,
- right to privacy,
- right to vote,
- right triangle,
- right ventricle,
- right wing,
- right winger,
- right-down,
- rights issue,
- rights offering,
- riparian right,
- set right,
- stage right,
- subscription right,
- the right way,
- undivided right,
- visitation right,
- voting right,
- water right,
- Divine right of kings,
- Pygmy right whale,
- Right and left coupling,
- Right and left screw,
- Right of eminent domain,
- Right shoulder arms,
- Right-angled,
- Right-hand,
- Right-handed,
- Right-handedness,
- Right-hearted,
- Right-heartedness,
- Right-lined,
- Right-minded,
- Right-mindedness,
- Right-running,
- To send to the right-about,
- To serve one right,
- To take ground to the right,
- civil rights activist,
- civil rights leader,
- civil rights movement,
- civil rights worker,
- commission on human rights,
- conjugal visitation right,
- far-right,
- right atrioventricular valve,
- right atrium of the heart,
- right coronary artery,
- right gastric artery,
- right gastric vein,
- right hand man,
- right of first publication,
- right to confront accusors,
- right to due process,
- right to the pursuit of happiness,
- right-about-face,
- right-eyed,
- right-hander,
- right-of-way,
- right-side-out,
- right-side-up,
- right-wing,
- right-winger,
- sense of right and wrong,
- special drawing rights,
- Right-hand rope,
- Right-handed screw,
- extreme right-winger,
- right of re-entry,
- right-angled triangle,
- right-hand man,
- right-handed pitcher,
- states' rights democratic party,
- right to speedy and public trial by jury,
- orthogonal orthographic rectangular right-angled