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Rightness synonyms

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good
(Slang) Incriminating information or evidence:
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  1. (Slang) Incriminating information or evidence:
  2. A good, valuable, or useful part or aspect.
  3. Welfare; benefit:
goodness
Virtue; excellence
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  1. Virtue; excellence
  2. The best part, essence, or valuable element of a thing
  3. The state or quality of being good.
morality
A system or collection of ideas of right and wrong conduct:
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  1. A system or collection of ideas of right and wrong conduct:
  2. The character of being in accord with the principles or standards of right conduct; right conduct; sometimes, specif., virtue in sexual conduct
  3. The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct:
probity
Uprightness in one's dealings; integrity
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  1. Uprightness in one's dealings; integrity
  2. Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness:
rectitude
Correctness of judgment or method
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  1. Correctness of judgment or method
  2. Conduct according to moral principles; strict honesty; uprightness of character
  3. The quality or condition of being correct in judgment.
virtue
An example or kind of moral excellence:
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  1. An example or kind of moral excellence:
  2. General moral excellence; right action and thinking; goodness or morality
  3. A good quality or feature
virtuousness
The state of being virtuous
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  1. The state of being virtuous
ethic
A theory or a system of moral values:
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  1. A theory or a system of moral values:
  2. A particular moral standard or value
  3. The study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be made by a person; moral philosophy.
ethicality
The state, quality, or manner of being ethical.
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  1. The state, quality, or manner of being ethical.
ethicalness
(Rare) The state or quality of being ethical.
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  1. (Rare) The state or quality of being ethical.
morality
A system or collection of ideas of right and wrong conduct:
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  1. A system or collection of ideas of right and wrong conduct:
  2. Moral instruction or a moral lesson
  3. Virtuous conduct:
propriety
(Archaic) Peculiar or proper nature or state
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  1. (Archaic) Peculiar or proper nature or state
  2. Conformity with accepted standards of proper manners or behavior
  3. Conformity to conventional standards of behavior or morality.
rightfulness
The state or quality of being rightful.
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  1. The state or quality of being rightful.
accuracy
The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness
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  1. The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness
  2. Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
  3. Precision; exactness.
exactitude
The state or quality of being exact.
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  1. The state or quality of being exact.
  2. The quality of being exact; precision; accuracy
exactness
The state of being exact
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  1. The state of being exact
preciseness
(Dated) pedantic behaviour
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  1. (Dated) pedantic behaviour
  2. The condition of being precise; precision
precision
The degree of this
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  1. The degree of this
  2. The ability of a measurement to be consistently reproduced.
  3. The quality of being precise; exactness, accuracy, etc.
Find another word for rightness. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for rightness, like: good, goodness, morality, probity, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness, ethic and ethicality.

Sentence Examples

  • And though such antinomianism has always been sternly repudiated by the moral consciousness of Christendom, it has never been forgotten that " inwardness," rightness of heart or spirit, is the preeminent characteristic of Christian goodness.

  • At the time, we felt so infallible in our rightness we grabbed the proverbial bull by the horns exposing ourselves to a wealth of trouble.

  • Rightness of purpose, preference of virtue for its own sake, suppression of vicious desires, were made essential points by the - Aristotelians, who attached the most importance to outward circumstances in their view of virtue, no less than by the Stoics, to whom all outward things were indifferent.

  • The rightness of H a is confirmed by T.

  • Upon whatsoever principle the rightness of an action depends, its performance is right for the agent.

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