Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property or state of being straight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality, condition, or state, of being straight.
- noun A variant of
straitness .
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- noun uncountable The state or quality of being
straight (especially in the sense of "heterosexual"). - noun countable The result or product of being
straight .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles
- noun having honest intentions
- noun a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex
- noun (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl
- noun trueness of course toward a goal
Etymologies
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Examples
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The qualities that seem to have attracted Karin Boye in these poems are the ones associated with emotional and spiritual directness, or 'erectness' or 'straightness' - rakhet.
Karin Boye - a biographical profile - 5 David McDuff 2009
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When someone tries to release a tape of said Republican making out in an elevator with a (married) lady to prove his straightness, that is, indeed, high comedy.
Poll: Despite Revote Controversy, Obama Takes Lead In Michigan 2009
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When we have mastered the notion of straightness, we have also mastered that aspect of it expressed by the affirmation that two straight lines can not inclose a space.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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Let it be clear: This issue has nothing to do with gayness or straightness, which is irrelevant to this report.
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Indeed, "straightness" is biological, but it entails an almost limitless set of moral choices when it comes to its expression.
Diana Butler Bass: The Golden State, Gay Marriage and the Golden Rule 2010
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Indeed, "straightness" is biological, but it entails an almost limitless set of moral choices when it comes to its expression.
Diana Butler Bass: The Golden State, Gay Marriage and the Golden Rule 2010
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It is not for undergrads, and I'm not sure I'd even read the whole thing myself, but the intro ... and I think first chapter ... make an argument about male sexuality being quite different than our contemporary notions of heterosexuality and "straightness" in terms of desired object choice.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008
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I think people expect a certain kind of straightness from their candidates, and when he would get up on stage with a light saber and stuff, I mean, he won my heart and those of a lot of other people, but I think generally people were nervous about that.
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The tools of craftsmanship will be seen to be intermediaries between the judging worker and the judged object, disclosing to the experimenter the particular character of the matter under investigation: thus a ruler, representing at once the straightness which is in the mind and the straightness of a plank, is used as an intermediary by which the operator proves his work.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Their first talk left Ralph with a dazzled sense of Moffatt's strength and keenness, but with a vague doubt as to the "straightness" of the proposed transaction.
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899
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