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Rightness
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right·ness
/
ˈraɪt
nɪs
/
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[
rahyt
-nis
]
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noun
1.
correctness or accuracy.
2.
propriety or fitness.
3.
moral integrity.
4.
Obsolete
.
straightness or directness.
Origin:
before 950;
Middle English;
Old English
rihtnes.
See
right
,
-ness
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rightness
(ˈraɪtnɪs)
—
n
the state or quality of being right
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
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Example sentences
He had few doubts about the
rightness
of his opinions.
The gesture at the forest felt theatrical, but that had a
rightness
too.
Instead, he depends on a few stage directions as to their movements, and on the
rightness
of his chosen words in the dialogue.
There is an inherent
rightness
or wrongness to an action or choice, regardless
of the outcome or consequence.
He would recognize this unified theory, he said, by its beauty or self-evident
rightness
.
He always quarrelled with the world, wrapping himself in the isolation of his own absolute
rightness
.
They do not know how to place it, what use to make of its modest
rightness
.
Which doesn't diminish the significance or
rightness
of this action.
Strangely enough, beauty is also a truth-and-
rightness
meter, and science and technology could not exist without it.
It is the
rightness
not merely of a single individual but a whole musical epoch.
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