right-mindedness

See also: rightmindedness

English

Etymology

right-minded + -ness

Noun

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

  1. The characteristic of being right-minded.
    • 1851: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
      ... 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 Starbuck
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