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Wrongness meaning

  1. The quality of being wrong; error or fault.
  2. Wrong or reprehensible things or actions.

Synonyms of Wrongness

rightness inappropriateness impropriety improperness appropriateness immorality incorrectness quality correctness

Related words

Other words often associated with Wrongness or its synonyms:

propriety conduct morality demeanour behaviour demeanor deportment behavior suitability iniquity indecency choice

Using Wrongness

  • The main meaning on this page is: The quality of being wrong; error or fault. | Wrong or reprehensible things or actions.
  • Useful related words include: rightness, inappropriateness, impropriety, improperness.
  • In the example corpus, wrongness often appears in combinations such as: wrongness of, or wrongness, the wrongness.

Context around Wrongness

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 12 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

utter 1× fantastic 1× concrete 1×

Sentence patterns with Wrongness

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

badness or wrongness to explain 1× his fantastic wrongness on every 1× measures the wrongness of taking 1× murder s wrongness 1× property of wrongness that some 1× rightness and wrongness of actions 1× rightness or wrongness of it 1× rightness or wrongness of men 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

also his fantastic 1× coroner brian sherrard 1× emotivists think not 1× he favors a 1× it is possible 1× normative ethics is 1×

Common sentence endings:

feelings of disapproval 1× journey s goals 1× men s actions 1× murder s wrongness 1× of acts have 1× of moral facts 1×

Words around Wrongness

Just before it in the word index:

wrongly 423 wronging 2 wrongheaded 10 wrongfulness 4 wrongfully 134 wrongful 239

Just after it in the word index:

wrongs 170 wrotchford 2 wrote 13.460 wroth 2 wrotham 6 wrought 221

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaon 19 abbv 19 abdalla 19 abdirahman 19 abdulmalik 19 abhimanyu 19

Corpus analysis for Wrongness

  • In this selection, "wrongness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, utter, fantastic and concrete stand out and add context to how "wrongness" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include badness or wrongness to explain and his fantastic wrongness on every. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "wrongness" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with wrongness

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

He was not questioning the “rightness or wrongness” of it. (10 words)

Also his fantastic wrongness on every major economic issue since the Clinton administration. (13 words)

But it is not difficult to explain these feelings without saying that wrongness was their cause. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

It is possible that this procedure started before the end of the Mycenaean age, but the idea is almost absent or vague in the Homeric poems, where the interference of the gods is not related to the rightness or wrongness of men's actions. (44 words)

Emotivists think not, claiming that we do not need to postulate the existence of moral "badness" or "wrongness" to explain why considering certain deeds makes us feel disapproval; that all we really observe when we introspect are feelings of disapproval. (40 words)

Whatever religious or historical connection Jews may have to the Land of Israel cannot supercede this wrongness, and as a result, Israel as a nation-state should be, according to this line of thinking, abolished or fundamentally reconfigured. (38 words)

Question examples

Is there any evidence that there is a property of wrongness that some types of acts have? (17 words)

Example sentences (13)

The wrongness is rooted in the fact that once you allow identifiable police participation in any march that advocates a disputed cause, then you have to allow it for all marches, whatever the cause.

Coroner Brian Sherrard said there had been no recognition from the perpetrators or their representatives of the “utter wrongness” of the attack.

Whatever religious or historical connection Jews may have to the Land of Israel cannot supercede this wrongness, and as a result, Israel as a nation-state should be, according to this line of thinking, abolished or fundamentally reconfigured.

Also his fantastic wrongness on every major economic issue since the Clinton administration.

The people of Berlin had no problem recognizing the concrete wrongness of the wall that corralled them.

But it is not difficult to explain these feelings without saying that wrongness was their cause.

Emotivists think not, claiming that we do not need to postulate the existence of moral "badness" or "wrongness" to explain why considering certain deeds makes us feel disapproval; that all we really observe when we introspect are feelings of disapproval.

He favors a 'journey' model of life, which measures the wrongness of taking a life by the degree to which doing so frustrates a life journey's goals.

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He was not questioning the “rightness or wrongness” of it.

Is there any evidence that there is a property of wrongness that some types of acts have?

It is possible that this procedure started before the end of the Mycenaean age, but the idea is almost absent or vague in the Homeric poems, where the interference of the gods is not related to the rightness or wrongness of men's actions.

Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics because it examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, while meta-ethics studies the meaning of moral language and the metaphysics of moral facts.

Some people might think that the strong feelings we have when we see or consider a murder provide evidence of murder's wrongness.

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Common combinations with wrongness

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "wrongness" in a sentence?
An example: "The wrongness is rooted in the fact that once you allow identifiable police participation in any march that advocates a disputed cause, then you have to allow it for all marches, whatever the cause." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "wrongness" from authentic English texts.
What does "wrongness" mean?
Wrongness means: The quality of being wrong; error or fault.
What are synonyms of "wrongness"?
Common synonyms of "wrongness" include: rightness, inappropriateness, impropriety, improperness, appropriateness, immorality, incorrectness, quality. Plus 1 more synonyms.
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