Properness
Properness noun - The quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting.
Usage example: questioned the properness of having any curfew at all for people of college age
Rightness is a synonym for properness. In some cases you can use "Rightness" instead a noun "Properness".
Rightness
Rightness noun - The quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting.
Usage example: the irrefutable rightness of the criticism didn't make it any more pleasant to hear
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- righteousness and properness
- righteousness and rightness
- goodness and properness
- goodness and rightness
- virtue and properness
- virtue and rightness
- accuracy and properness
- accuracy and rightness
- honesty and properness
- honesty and rightness
- integrity and properness
- integrity and rightness
- uprightness and properness
- uprightness and rightness
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