uprightness

Noun

uprightness (countable and uncountable, plural uprightnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state of being honest, honourable, and moral.
   • You are responsible only for your own uprightness. See to that and all else will take care of itself. - Miles Williams Mathis
   • [S]uch as therefore ſhould not be adventured vpon vvithout mature and vnpartiall diſquiſition of the vprightneſſe of our affections therein, […]1621 May 4 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Saunderson [i.e., Robert Sanderson], “[Ad Clerum.] The Second Sermon. At a Visitation at Boston, Linc[olnshire] 24. April. 1621.”, in Twelve...

   Synonyms:

   integrity, propriety, rectitude, angelicality, angelicalness, angelicity, angelicness, decency, godliness, honesty

2. (uncountable) The state of being erect or vertical.
   • It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119

   Synonyms:

   verticality, verticalness

3. (countable) The product or result of being upright.