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straightness

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Middle English streightnes

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Middle English · inherited fromstreightnes
English todaystraightness

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.