Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Crookedness; wryness; unevenness.
- noun The state or condition of being wrong or erroneous; heinousness; faultiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
wrong ;error orfault
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inappropriate conduct
- noun contrary to conscience or morality
- noun the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
Etymologies
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Examples
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In this case, that kind of wrongness is no doubt justified by an un-nuanced, absolutist view of the harms that file sharing causes – a view that the metaphors you give above also imply.
Creative Control - Part 5 Hal Duncan 2009
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However, the main wrongness was in not getting his blade with my strong, and instead ending in a crap bind.
zornhau: Old men can't spring.. zornhau 2010
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Unfortunately the just plain factual wrongness is pretty typical.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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Consistent with Angel's "soul" and Spike's "empathy chip" being at the root of their capacity for redemption, when the character of Fred becomes the demon Illyria, the precise nature of her wrongness is identified not as a nebulous and intrinsic (and pointless) malevolence, but as the entirely natural lack of empathy a predator has for its prey.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Consistent with Angel's "soul" and Spike's "empathy chip" being at the root of their capacity for redemption, when the character of Fred becomes the demon Illyria, the precise nature of her wrongness is identified not as a nebulous and intrinsic (and pointless) malevolence, but as the entirely natural lack of empathy a predator has for its prey.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008
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The wrongness is in the belief that the state can provide the social structure and moral purpose that is the answer to crime.
Archive 2007-08-26 Newmania 2007
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The wrongness is in the belief that the state can provide the social structure and moral purpose that is the answer to crime.
Broken Society Newmania 2007
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Indeed, in saying that it is intrinsically neutral, that it should be viewed as an act in and of itself, applicable in contexts other than between a dominant and a marginal culture, I'm saying that it gains its value of rightness or wrongness from the context.
Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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Indeed, in saying that it is intrinsically neutral, that it should be viewed as an act in and of itself, applicable in contexts other than between a dominant and a marginal culture, I'm saying that it gains its value of rightness or wrongness from the context.
The Power and the Piss Hal Duncan 2006
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Just remember, kiddy-winkies: It's not wrong to be strange, the only wrongness is in not ADMITTING it.
The Terrible Weapons Of SuperScience archmage 2002
yarb commented on the word wrongness
Formal term of address for one who is wronger than the wrongest of the wrong.
E.g.
- "Do you deny that the square root of 49 is three?"
- "No, your wrongness, I do not".
August 15, 2010