rightness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun according with conscience or morality
  2. noun appropriate conduct; doing the right thing
    appropriateness.
  3. noun conformity to fact or truth
    correctness.
  4. noun conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety
    nicety; justness.
    • it was performed with justness and beauty

WordNet


Right"ness noun
Etymology
AS. richtnes.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913