noun
1. according with conscience or morality (Freq. 1)
• Ant: ↑wrongness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑right
• Hypernyms: ↑morality
2. conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety
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it was performed with justness and beauty
• Hypernyms: ↑conformity, ↑conformance
3. conformity to fact or truth
• Syn: ↑correctness
• Ant: ↑wrongness, ↑incorrectness (for: ↑correctness)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑right, ↑correct (for: ↑correctness)
• Hypernyms: ↑quality
4. appropriate conduct; doing the right thing
• Syn: ↑appropriateness
• Ant: ↑inappropriateness (for: ↑appropriateness)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑right
• Hypernyms: ↑propriety, ↑properness, ↑correctitude
Useful english dictionary. 2012.