rightfulness

1. 1.

   anything in accord with principles of justice

   “he feels he is in the right”

   “the rightfulness of his claim”

   Synonymsright

   Antonymswrongfulness

   Broaderjustice

Other forms of rightfulness

plural

rightfulnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rightfulness

What does rightfulness mean?

rightfulness means "anything in accord with principles of justice".

How many syllables are in rightfulness?

rightfulness has 3 syllables: right-ful-ness. The stress falls on "right".

What is another word for rightfulness?

Close synonyms include right. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of rightfulness?

The recorded antonyms are wrongfulness.

Is rightfulness a common word?

rightfulness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.