uprightness

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uprightness

  • /ˌʌpˈɹaɪtnəs/

noun uprightnesses

  1. uncountable The state of being honest, honourable, and moral. You are responsible only for your own uprightness. See to that and all else will take care of itself. - Miles Williams Mathis

    Similar: integrity, propriety, rectitude, angelicality, angelicalness, angelicity, angelicness, decency, godliness, honesty, honor, probity

  2. uncountable The state of being erect or vertical. It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose

    Similar: verticality, verticalness

  3. countable The product or result of being upright.

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noun state of being honest, honourable, and moral

Españolrectitud, integridad, honradez, probidad
Françaisdroiture, intégrité, rectitude
DeutschRedlichkeit, Aufrichtigkeit, Ehrenhaftigkeit, Anständigkeit

noun state of being erect or vertical

Españolerguimiento, derechura
Françaisaplomb

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@misc{uprightness_2026,
  title = {uprightness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/uprightness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}