The suitability of a thing for a natural tendency or appetency.

Ethics that questions definitions of the Good are known as Metaethics. Plato held that the good was an absolute that existed in a truer form than the things we perceive around us. Relativists hold that goodness is determined by the traditional value system of a given culture. Trying to define and determine what the good is the preoccupation of the student of ethics.

The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.

moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people"

that which is good or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization"