rectitude
noun /ˈrektɪtjuːd/
/ˈrektɪtuːd/
[uncountable] (formal)- the quality of thinking or behaving in a correct and honest way synonym uprightness
- She is a model of rectitude.
- Most of them led lives of selfless moral rectitude.
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting straightness): from Old French, from late Latin rectitudo, from Latin rectus ‘right, straight’.