right-mindedness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From right-minded + -ness.
Noun
[edit]right-mindedness (countable and uncountable, plural right-mindednesses)
- 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