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UK
/ɹˈaɪtnəs/
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[ US /ˈɹaɪtnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɹaɪtnəs/ ]
NOUN
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conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety
it was performed with justness and beauty - conformity to fact or truth
- appropriate conduct; doing the right thing
- according with conscience or morality
How To Use rightness In A Sentence
- The King looked at him and seeing him to be yet comelier than his daughter and goodlier than she in stature and proportion and brightness and perfection, said to him, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The contrast or brightness of the image can be varied to emphasise areas or tissues of interest. Times, Sunday Times
- It took a moment to acclimatize to the sudden light and to the brightness of violent colour; there was blood everywhere. CHAMELEON
- Rightness, considered in its own nature, does not belong to what I do.
- People in the world of health and medicine sometimes become carried away by the obvious rightness or righteousness of their cause.
- Certainly all reports spoke of genuine smiles on the Girls' faces, of their brightness and animation.
- At another time it might have been a pretty journey, the hills just turning the colors of pumpkin and hay and pomegranate and the skies depthless and clear, but now everywhere one looked most of the trees had been felled for fuel and there was only a hazy, oppressive brightness refracted from the shorn hillsides. Excerpt: The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
- Look at the brightness of what lies ahead and work out a way to make it come to you.
- She has a very sunny disposition and just burns brightness. The Sun
- I stand here today humbled works on antithesis, a putting of terms into opposition with each other, whereby stand, apart from connoting the witness stand and stealing some of its sincerity, erects an uprightness to contrast with the lowness of humbled, from the Latin humus, meaning earth. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES