JUSTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does justness mean? 

• JUSTNESS (noun)
  The noun JUSTNESS has 2 senses:

1. conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety

2. the quality of being just or fair

  Familiarity information: JUSTNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUSTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

justness; nicety; rightness

Context example:

it was performed with justness and beauty

Hypernyms ("justness" is a kind of...):

conformance; conformity (correspondence in form or appearance)

Derivation:

just (of moral excellence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being just or fair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

justice; justness

Hypernyms ("justness" is a kind of...):

righteousness (adhering to moral principles)

natural virtue ((scholasticism) one of the four virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) derived from nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "justness"):

equity; fairness (conformity with rules or standards)

right; rightfulness (anything in accord with principles of justice)

Derivation:

just (free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules)

just (fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience)

just (used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting)

 Context examples 

In poetry, they must be allowed to excel all other mortals; wherein the justness of their similes, and the minuteness as well as exactness of their descriptions, are indeed inimitable.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Anne wondered whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and advantage of firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him that, like all other qualities of the mind, it should have its proportions and limits.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It was upon the behaviour of these very slight acquaintance that all her present happiness depended; and while Mrs. Morland was successfully confirming her own opinions by the justness of her own representations, Catherine was silently reflecting that now Henry must have arrived at Northanger; now he must have heard of her departure; and now, perhaps, they were all setting off for Hereford.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This critique, the justness of which was unfortunately lost on poor Catherine, brought them to the door of Mrs. Thorpe's lodgings, and the feelings of the discerning and unprejudiced reader of Camilla gave way to the feelings of the dutiful and affectionate son, as they met Mrs. Thorpe, who had descried them from above, in the passage.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)