straightness

Other forms of straightness

plural

straightnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about straightness

What does straightness mean?

straightness means "(of hair) lack of a tendency to curl". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in straightness?

straightness has 2 syllables: straight-ness. The stress falls on "straight".

What is another word for straightness?

Close synonyms include directness, good faith, heterosexuality, heterosexualism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of straightness?

The recorded antonyms are curliness, crookedness.

Is straightness a common word?

straightness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.