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Noun: rightness  rIt-nus
  1. According with conscience or morality
     
  2. Appropriate conduct; doing the right thing
    - appropriateness
     
  3. Conformity to fact or truth
    - correctness
     
  4. Conformity with some aesthetic standard of correctness or propriety
    - justness, nicety

See also: correct, incorrect, right, wrong

Type of: conformance, conformity, correctitude, morality, properness, propriety, quality

Antonym: inappropriateness, incorrectness, wrongness