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Rightness

Rightness \Right"ness\, n. [AS. rihtnes.] Straightness; as, the rightness of a line.
--Bacon.

2. The quality or state of being right; right relation.

The craving for rightness with God.
--J. C. Shairp.

Wiktionary
rightness

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The characteristic of being right; correctness. 2 (context countable English) The result or product of being right; something correct. 3 The property of being on, or moving toward, the right.

WordNet
rightness
  1. n. according with conscience or morality [ant: wrongness]

  2. appropriate conduct; doing the right thing [syn: appropriateness] [ant: inappropriateness]

  3. conformity to fact or truth [syn: correctness] [ant: incorrectness, incorrectness]

  4. conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty" [syn: justness, nicety]

Usage examples of "rightness".

She no longer questioned the ultimate rightness and central position of the podia, and of her place in the scheme of the galaxy.

Others had sought to breach her defenses, to convince her of their rightness, to twist her thinking to suit their own.

It signified a colossal ego, a man who might easily have given himself an anther and pollinated amaryllises and neighbor ladies, a man who judged the rightness of his behavior only by his own standards, if he bothered to so judge at all.

He lived in the world, accepting it, sure of its rightness, looking forward to the day when he would be a Merging One.

The familiar sense of rightness told him that the coordinates in the matrix were starting to form a complete pattern at last.

Yet I brought away an impression that here was a rightness that earthly economists have failed to grasp.

Alex seemed to share with her handsome husband, Elizabeth was beginning to question the rightness of choosing husbands as if practicality were paramount.

Genial, brutal parents, up to their necks in collusion, determined on the rightness of their choices, in everything.

Conditioned themselves to believe in the rightness of their cause, admen didn't give up easily.

These people, even the gawky boy, radiated goodwill and confidence in the rightness of their presence here, this evening in the little orphanage outside Bogra.

He feels what otherwise he has only known through faith and common sense, feels for one sweet devastating moment what only the innocent can feel: the exquisite rightness of creation from shore to shore across the sea of stars, a clear ringing in the heart that chases out all fears and every anger, a sense of belonging, purpose, hope, an awareness of being loved.

One also noticed, when talking to Tijerina of his Alianza movement, that he was not troubled by doubts of either his abilities or the rightness of what he was doing.

Barquentine, also, was a bitter pill to swallow, but Flay realized at once the traditional rightness and integrity of the old man.

And, at times, recollecting, or seeming to recollect, such times and places, and their naturalness, and rightness, and their fulfillments and ecstasies.

The Death's Head is surrounded by the goshawks that symbolize the unshakable faith in the rightness of our mission in the service of justice and in the victory of our worldview.