Meaning | adhering to moral principles. |
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Narrower | honesty, honestness | The quality of being honest |
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honor, honour | The quality of being honorable and having a good name |
honorableness, honourableness | The quality of deserving honor or respect |
impeccability | The quality of being exempt from sin or incapable of sinning |
justice, justness | The quality of being just or fair |
piety, piousness | righteousness by virtue of being pious |
uprightness, rectitude | righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest |
Broader | morality | concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong |
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Opposite | unrighteousness | failure to adhere to moral principles |
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Spanish | rectitud |
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Catalan | rectitud |
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Adjectives | righteous | characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice |
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