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Rectitude vs Rightness - What's the difference?

rectitude | rightness |

As nouns the difference between rectitude and rightness

is that rectitude is straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent while rightness is (uncountable) the characteristic of being right; correctness.

rectitude

English

(wikipedia rectitude)

Noun

  • Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 98:
    • A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn't just think that I was right: I thought that “we” (our group of International Socialists in particular) were being damn well proved right.
  • Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; (moral) uprightness, virtue.
  • * 1776 , , et al.'', ''Declaration of Independence , 4 Jul.:
    • We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.

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    Synonyms

    * (rightness of principle) honesty, integrity, morality

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    rightness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The characteristic of being right; correctness.
  • (countable) The result or product of being right; something correct.
  • The property of being on, or moving toward, the right.
  • * 1996 , Robert Cummins, Representations, Targets, and Attitudes (page 105)
    • I think we are inclined to think the leftness and rightness can be represented because there is a word in our language that means left'', and another that means ''right , and we understand those words.