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Rightness vs Righteous - What's the difference?

rightness | righteous |

As a noun rightness

is (uncountable) the characteristic of being right; correctness.

As an adjective righteous is

free from sin or guilt.

As a verb righteous is

to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.

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.

    righteous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • free from sin or guilt
  • moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
  • justified morally
  • (slang, US) awesome

    • Derived terms

    * righteousness * self-righteous

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 101:
    • Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused ’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.