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right-onness

right-onness noun: the quality of being right-on.

Noun

right-onness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being right-on.
    • Oh, there are gestures, and the competition to include the writing of a handful of 'approved' Black British women writers in anthologies with pretensions to right-onness is fierce.1988, Shabnam Grewal, Charting the journey: writings by black and Third World women

Origin of right-onness

From right-on + -ness.

Questions about right-onness

What does right-onness mean?
Right-onness means the quality of being right-on.
What part of speech is right-onness?
Right-onness is a noun.

Words near right-onness in the dictionary

  1. right-of-centre
  2. right-of-way
  3. right-of-ways
  4. right-oh
  5. right-on
  6. right-onness
  7. right-shore
  8. right-shored
  9. right-shores
  10. right-shoring
  11. right-side-out

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