rightness Definition
right·ness (rīt′nis)
noun
- soundness of moral principles; integrity
- agreement with truth or fact; correctness
- appropriateness; suitability
rightness Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- action: These days a majority tend to judge the rightness of an action by its outcome.
- thing: He is never slow to poke fun at himself or others nor to muse on the rightness of things.
- sex: They have been talking about the rightness of homosexual sex or the irrelevance of Prince Charles ' adultery.
- act: We can do this by claiming that what is intuited is the prima facie rightness of acts and general principles about prima facie rightness.
- position: Is there any reason to suspect any connection between the ability to stand publicity and the rightness of a position?
- case: You have a referendum and you seek to convince people of the rightness of a particular case.
Converse of object
- have: Her failure, tho, has a poetic rightness in this double bill.
- judge: These days a majority tend to judge the rightness of an action by its outcome.
- question: True defenders of the free world should recognize the need to question the rightness of our actions, and this satire does this brilliantly.
- see: These people saw the moral rightness of our case and swelled our ranks in London in Feb 2003.
- decide: It is often a hard thing too decide the rightness or wrongness of any single macro policy move.
- confirm: Again research is beginning to confirm the rightness of what I did.
Preposition: for
prayer: It's brevity adds to its feeling of rightness for a prayer as the light fails for another day.
Adjective modifier
- prima: Consider again the passage where he says that a right act has the greatest balance of prima facie rightness.
- moral: Second, we have not been provided with criteria for moral rightness.
- essential: Even tho we may feel quite inadequate to bear it, we cannot but sense its essential rightness.
- own: You can't have moral debate when the cornerstone of that debate believes in nothing but his own ineffable rightness.
- independent: Whether, more particularly, it have an independent rightness of its own, or it be right only because God wills it?
Noun used with modifier
facie: Consider again the passage where he says that a right act has the greatest balance of prima facie rightness.
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