right-mindedness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

right-minded +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

right-mindedness (countable and uncountable, plural right-mindednesses)

  1. The characteristic of being right-minded.
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
      ... 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
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