Definition of "rightness" [right•ness]

• The state or quality of being right. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "America's center-rightness is supposedly proven by the fact that we don't have a government-run health-care system."
• "In practical terms it becomes a cost/benefit analysis as to HOW to do this, but the rightness is not in question."
• "America seems to think that its rightness is something that happens."