Right-onness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being right-on. uncountable

    "Oh, there are gestures, and the competition to include the writing of a handful of 'approved' Black British women writers in anthologies with pretensions to right-onness is fierce."

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"Oh, there are gestures, and the competition to include the writing of a handful of 'approved' Black British women writers in anthologies with pretensions to right-onness is fierce."

Etymology

From right-on + -ness.

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