straightness

Noun

Meaning

The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.

A variant of Straitness.

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All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back. John Ruskin

Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines. Herbert Spencer

Backwards marching usually employs the same preference for leg straightness as forward marching (if the band marches with legs completely straight while marching forwards, they also do so while marching backwards, to preserve uniformity of style). Source: Internet

If ease of working is prized, wood should be chosen with regard to its uniformity of texture and straightness of grain, which will in most cases occur when there is little contrast between the latewood of one season's growth and the earlywood of the next. Source: Internet

It speaks to a transitional moment in pop’s sexual politics that Rita Ora’s for contributing to that shallow tradition rather than, as the creators might have wanted, getting praised for subverting straightness. Source: Internet

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