The word "wrongness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the state or quality of something that is wrong or incorrect. For example, "The wrongness of the decision was obvious to everyone."
On this version, the threshold varies in proportion to the degree of wrong being done the wrongness of stepping on a snail has a lower threshold (over which the wrong can be justified) than does the wrong of stepping on a baby.
But the conventional wisdom is wrong, and its wrongness says much about the country's political culture.Americans do not like their politicians to admit to being politicians, or openly to press the interests of their party.
An ongoing controversy raised by the proposals described in this part 3.3 is whether they successfully explain the wrongness of the wrong act in terms of the adverse consequences that act has for the person whose plight has drawn our concern to begin with.
If actual consequences are what determine moral wrongness, then it was morally wrong for Alice to buy the bus ticket for this runaway.
Rather, it is to be equated with its being unjustifiable; the character of wrongness is captured by the higher order fact that wrong acts are unjustifiable.
The rationalists oppose Hobbes' claim that there is no right or wrong in the state of nature, that rightness or wrongness is determined by the sovereign's will, and that morality requires sanctions to motivate us.
A variety of factors are thought not to affect the wrongness of killing of beings with FMS, in cases when killing is wrong: the being's age, level of intelligence, temperament, social circumstances, etc.
The moral error theorist claims that when we say "Stealing is wrong" we are asserting that the act of stealing instantiates the property of wrongness, but in fact nothing instantiates this property (or there is no such property at all), and thus the utterance is untrue.
It's only a hunch, of course, that Blair's fundamental wrongness will be the judgment of history.
Seated at another desk in this most chastening of eternal reading rooms would be Mr Tony Blair, perusing the history books of the future, with a live webcam trained on his face to transmit every individual moment of realisation of his own wrongness.
Among the volunteers who unscrambled the sentences, those exposed to ideas of cleanliness rated eating the family dog at 5.7, on average, on the wrongness scale whereas the control group rated it as 6.6.
