right-mindedness

See also: rightmindedness

English

Etymology

From right-minded +‎ -ness.

Noun

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