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rightness Definition

right·ness (rītnis)

noun

  1. soundness of moral principles; integrity
  2. agreement with truth or fact; correctness
  3. 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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