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noun
The result or product of being straight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: rectilinearity, rectitude
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The state or quality of being straight (especially in the sense of "heterosexual").
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: heterosexuality
Antonyms: gayness
noun
a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: heterosexuality, heterosexualism
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
noun
having honest intentions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: good faith
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: honesty, honestness
noun
trueness of course toward a goal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: directness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: characteristic
Narrower terms: downrightness, straightforwardness, immediacy, immediateness, pointedness
noun
freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: crookedness
Broader terms: shape, form, configuration, contour, conformation
noun
(of hair) lack of a tendency to curl
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: curliness
Broader terms: curvature, curve
History
From Middle English streightnes, equivalent to straight + -ness. Cognate with Scots strauchtness, straichtness (“straightness”).
