right-mindedness
See also: rightmindedness
English
Etymology
right-minded + -ness
Noun
right-mindedness (countable and uncountable, plural right-mindednesses)
- The characteristic of being right-minded.
- 1851: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- ... at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck
- 1851: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick