rightness
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Etymology
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”).
Noun
rightness (usually uncountable, plural rightnesses)
- (uncountable) The characteristic of being right; correctness.
- (countable) The result or product of being right; something correct.
- The property of being on, or moving toward, the right.
- 1996, Robert Cummins, Representations, Targets, and Attitudes, page 105:
- 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.
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