conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety
<noun.attribute> it was performed with justness and beauty
Rightness \Right"ness\, n. [AS. rihtnes.] Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. --Bacon.
2. The quality or state of being right; right relation.
The craving for rightness with God. --J. C. Shairp.
Even Jean-Louis Gassee, an ebullient Frenchman brought in by Mr. Sculley in 1985 to manage the revamped product-development efforts, still defends the "fundamental rightness" of the original Macintosh idea, especially its playful graphics.
Another policy question has to do with the rightness or wrongness of aiding the Contras in Nicaragua.
An old woman is told by a keen young parish priest to choose between her politics and her religion; an unmarried brother and sister fall out over the rightness of armed resistance.
"I feel a great sense of satisfaction and rightness," Walker said.
Popular election is a powerful political tool, regardless of the rightness or error of one's policies.
Its campaign for tax deductible servants is steeped in rightness.