Wrongfulness

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The quality or state of being contrary to what is morally right, legally permissible, or factually accurate
2. The condition of being unjust or immoral, not adhering to ethical standards, or deviating from the truth is known as this concept
3. This notion refers to the state of acting in a way that violates moral principles, legal norms, or factual correctness

Etymology: Wrongfulness is a straightforward formation: the adjective "wrongful" with the suffix "-ness" added to the end. The suffix descends from Old English "-nes," which turned adjectives into nouns naming a quality or condition, so "wrongfulness" is the state of being wrongful. Its Germanic ancestry runs back to an ancient suffix family that also produced words like "darkness" and "goodness," which is why the ending feels so at home in English.

Synonyms: unlawfulness, illegality, immorality

Antonyms: rightness, legitimacy, lawfulness