rightness

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9

Definition of rightness

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The characteristic of being right; correctness.
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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The characteristic of being right; correctness.
  2. (countable, usually)The result or product of being right; something correct.
  3. (uncountable, usually)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.”

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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”).

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