rightness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The property of being on, or moving toward, the right.

   I think we are inclined to think the leftness and rightness can be represented because there is a word in our language that means left, and another that means right, and we understand those words.

2. 2
   noun

   conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety

3. 3
   noun

   conformity to fact or truth

4. 4
   noun

   according with conscience or morality

From Middle English rightnesse, riȝtnesse, rihtnesse, from Old English rihtnes, rehtnis, from Proto-West Germanic *rehtanassī (“rightness, justice”), equivalent to right + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian rjochtens (“rightness”), Middle Dutch rechtenesse (“rightness, justification”), Old High German rehtnissa (“justice”).

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