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The quality of not conforming to fact or truth
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wrongness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. inappropriate conduct [syn: inappropriateness ] [ant: appropriateness ] contrary to conscience or morality [ant: rightness ] the quality of not conforming to fact or truth [syn: incorrectness ] [ant: correctness , correctness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrongness \Wrong"ness\, n. The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. The best great wrongnesses within themselves. --Bp. Butler. The rightness or wrongness of this view. --Latham.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being wrong; error or fault
Usage examples of wrongness.
Even at the distance of a bow shot Seregil could see something amiss in the lines of the figure, some profound wrongness of proportion that disturbed him more than the fact that Alec obviously could not see it himself.
For Saul, the wrongness of the world had always been obvious, but for me, still at heart a guildsman and forever puzzled at the way things were never quite how they should be, explanations chalked on a bondhouse roof would never be enough.
He was just starting to reinspect the men listening to the girl when suddenly it came to him that the stink of wrongness was rolling from the six.
Yet the smell of wrongness was there, as at Jarra and the edge of Remen, and this time it was not going away.
In the eyes of many of the Trinidadians working for Frikkie, these trinkets would be a sure sign of wrongness.
But once the eye got used to the asymmetry, there was no sense of wrongness.
The dimly perceptible wrongness in space that was a warp point loomed in TFNS Bearhound's main view screen.
Those fears had never weighed her down as this feeling of wrongness was doing — this blighting fear that was oddly like that which she knew in her old nightmare, a thick, swimming mist through which she ran with bursting heart, a lost child seeking a haven that was hidden from her.
Evidently, when Martie had used the activating name, Viola Narvilly, Dusty had responded—and the dog, sensing a wrongness in his master, had risen to investigate.
Yet exiling or killing someone to prevent wrongness wasn't right, either.
He's groks mostly that they're a wrongness that keeps people apart-and get in the way of letting love cause them to grow closer.
We need strong men for that-'sin' is hardly ever concerned with a real wrongness but sin is what the sinner groks as sin-and when you grok it with him, it can be very disturbing.
He’s groks mostly that they’re a wrongness that keeps people apart - and get in the way of letting love cause them to grow closer.
We need strong men for that - ‘sin’ is hardly ever concerned with a real wrongness but sin is what the sinner groks as sin - and when you grok it with him, it can be very disturbing.
He could feel a wrongness, almost exactly as if something very dead and very cold had drawn a hand down his spine and then pushed the hand inside him to clutch at his gut.