| Main Entry: | rightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics |
Synonyms: |
belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, propriety, righteousness, rightfulness, standard, standards, value |
| Main Entry: | rightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good |
Synonyms: |
class, dignity, excellence, goodness, ideal, merit, morality, prerogative, probity, quality, rectitude, right, righteousness, straight, uprightness, value, virtue, virtuousness, worth |
| Main Entry: | rightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accuracy |
Synonyms: |
accurateness, carefulness, certainty, closeness, correctness, definiteness, definitiveness, definitude, efficiency, exactitude, exactness, faultlessness, incisiveness, mastery, meticulousness, preciseness, precision, sharpness, skill, skillfulness, strictness, sureness, truthfulness, veracity, verity |
| Main Entry: | correctness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | propriety |
Synonyms: |
bon ton, civility, correctitude, decency, decorousness, decorum, fitness, good breeding, order, orderliness, properness, rightness, seemliness |
Antonyms: |
impropriety, incorrectness, infidelity, unacceptableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
Synonyms: |
advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, rightness, suitability, usefulness, utilitarianism, utility |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | fairness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice |
Synonyms: |
candor, charitableness, charity, civility, consideration, courtesy, decency, decorum, disinterestedness, due, duty, equitableness, equity, exactitude, fair shake, fair-mindedness, give and take, good faith, goodness, honesty, honor, humanity, impartiality, integrity, justness, legitimacy, moderation, open-mindedness, propriety, rationality, reasonableness, right, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, seemliness, square deal, suitability, tolerance, truth, uprightness, veracity |
Antonyms: |
inequity, injustice, partiality, unfairness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | fitness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, admissibility, agreeableness, applicability, appositeness, aptitude, aptness, assimilation, auspiciousness, compatibility, competence, concurrency, congeniality, congruousness, consistency, consonance, convenience, correspondence, decency, decorum, eligibility, expediency, harmony, keeping, order, patness, pertinence, preparedness, propriety, qualification, readiness, relevancy, rightness, seasonableness, seemliness, suitability, timeliness |
Antonyms: |
inappropriateness, unsuitability |
| Main Entry: | goodness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency, excellence |
Synonyms: |
advantage, beneficence, benefit, benevolence, ethicality, friendliness, generosity, good will, grace, graciousness, honesty, honor, humaneness, integrity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, mercy, merit, morality, nourishment, obligingness, probity, quality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, superiority, uprightness, value, virtue, wholesomeness, worth |
Antonyms: |
evil, indecency, meanness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | morality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics, honesty |
Synonyms: |
chastity, conduct, decency, ethicality, ethicalness, gentleness, godliness, good habits, goodness, honor, ideals, incorruptibility, incorruption, integrity, justice, manners, moral code, morals, mores, philosophy, principle, principles, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, saintliness, standards, uprightness, virtue, worthiness |
| Notes: | morality is beliefs regarding appropriate behavior, while ethics is the formal study of morality |
Antonyms: |
amorality, badness, corruption, dishonesty, evil, immorality, sinfulness, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | order |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lawfulness |
Synonyms: |
calm, control, decorousness, decorum, discipline, goodness, integrity, law, law and order, niceness, orderliness, peace, peacefulness, probity, properness, propriety, quiet, rectitude, rightness, seemliness, suitability, tranquility, uprightness |
Antonyms: |
lawlessness, liberty, license |