rightness
Americannoun
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correctness or accuracy.
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propriety or fitness.
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moral integrity.
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Obsolete. straightness or directness.
noun
Etymology
Origin of rightness
before 950; Middle English; Old English rihtnes. See right, -ness
Example Sentences
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The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
His rightness for the role is a marvelous coup, considering it’s the fourth film in a four-decade-old franchise that’s tightly bonded to another once-distinguished dramatic actor, Leslie Nielsen, who originated the character of Lt.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025
The second cost of diversity derives from how employees of color perceive the rightness of their employer’s actions, otherwise known as legitimacy.
From Salon • Apr. 1, 2025
“A good producer,” he writes “can smell nuance from a hundred yards…he knows when you’re starting to question the basic rightness of your case. That’s when he begins his pep talk. ‘
From Slate • Apr. 25, 2023
It was the desolation of having found the place that fits, the one true place, and experiencing the first heady sigh of rightness before being torn away and cast back into random, lonely scatter.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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