straightness

straightness
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Absence of bending
Nouns
1. straightness, directness (see adjectives); rectilinearity, alignment, truing; straight, direct, or right line, straight angle; beeline, short cut; inflexibility, stiffness (see inelasticity); verticality, perpendicularity (see vertical).
2. straightedge, ruler, yardstick; T square, carpenter's square; straightaway; chalk line; straightener, hot comb.
Verbs — be straight, not turn, not bend, etc.; go straight, steer for, aim for, head for (see direction); sit up, straighten, rectify, set straight; line, align, true, level; unbend, uncurl, unravel, unfold, unwrap.
Adjectives — straight, rectilinear, rectilineal; direct, even, right, true, near, short; linear, in a line, straightaway, straightforward, straight as an arrow or a die, point-blank; unbent, invariable, inflexible, unbroken; vertical, perpendicular.
Adverbs — straight[way], straightforward[s], in line, in a straight line, as the crow flies; continuously, through; correctly, rightly, bluntly, point-blank; upright.
Quotations — Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing ever can be made (Immanuel Kant).
Antonyms, see curvature.

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