Used in a Sentence

wrongness

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for wrongness.

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Could you possibly expand upon your comment for those of us who don't spot the wrongness right away?

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Quick take

The quality of being wrong; error or fault.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of wrongness gathered in one view.

noun

The quality of being wrong; error or fault.

noun

Wrong or reprehensible things or actions.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wrongness.

Example sentences

1

Could you possibly expand upon your comment for those of us who don't spot the wrongness right away?

2

Being 400 years old instead of just 40 would serve only to increase the magnitude of your wrongness tenfold.

3

For example, the inappropriateness of overtly racist statements has become greater over time, while their wrongness hasn't.

4

Hypocrisy is only a heuristic (and a pretty bad one), it doesn't impact the rightness or the wrongness of the advice given.

5

I'd hope friendship would be based more off of showing respect than the rightness/wrongness of a position.

6

In that sense P and ¬P are degrees of wrongness and truthness.

7

The rest of your post contains so much wrongness that I don't have time to elaborate my arguments against it.

8

That doesn't get to rightness/wrongness, it just specifies cause and effect.

9

I am not denying that there are degrees of rightness and wrongness, by the way.

10

Actually building that future requires solving technical problems, but also requires political solutions to resolve the inevitable clashes of perspective (and flat-out wrongness) that will occur.

11

I am only saying that the wrongness/harmfulness of the content (which is clearly different) isn't taken into account by the point presented here.

12

Honestly, I worry more about my integrity as an authority figure than his displeasure or the rightness or wrongness of the issue being discussed.

Quote examples

1

But some human theories are less wrong than others, and it's the "degree of wrongness" that matters, practically speaking.

2

I was expecting a more detached and unemotional description of the setting, where all the "wrongness" would be creeping up in back of the reader's mind.

3

The result could have multiplied the wrongness of the intent and resulting in tens of years of jail time, but luckily for them their only "crime" this time was the intent of their dangerous actions.

4

His is the argument that "wrong" depends on utility, as there's usually no absolute match with the objective status universe (ding an sich), so we just have approximations with different degrees of wrongness.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use wrongness in a sentence?

Could you possibly expand upon your comment for those of us who don't spot the wrongness right away?

What does wrongness mean?

The quality of being wrong; error or fault.

What part of speech is wrongness?

wrongness is commonly used as noun.