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straightness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English streightnes, equivalent to straight + -ness. Cognate with Scots strauchtness, straichtness (“straightness”).

  1. inherited from streightnes

Definitions

  1. The result or product of being straight.

  2. The state or quality of being straight (especially in the sense of "heterosexual").

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at straightness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at straightness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at straightness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA