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rightmindedness

rightmindedness is the alternative form of right-mindedness.

Meaning of right-mindedness

Noun

right-mindedness (countable and uncountable, plural right-mindednesses)

  1. The characteristic of being right-minded.
    • ... at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Origin of rightmindedness

From rightminded + -ness.

Questions about rightmindedness

What is rightmindedness the alternative form of?
Rightmindedness is the alternative form of right-mindedness.

Words near rightmindedness in the dictionary

  1. rightly or wrongly
  2. rightly so
  3. rightmaking
  4. rightminded
  5. rightmindedly
  6. rightmindedness
  7. rightmost
  8. rightness
  9. rightnesses
  10. righto
  11. rightoid

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