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Straightness vs Demonstration - What's the difference?

straightness | demonstration |

As nouns the difference between straightness and demonstration

is that straightness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being straight (especially in the sense of "heterosexual" ) while demonstration is the act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.

straightness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being straight (especially in the sense of "heterosexual" ).
  • (countable) The result or product of being straight.

    • Synonyms

    *heterosexuality

    Antonyms

    *gayness

    demonstration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
  • An event at which something will be demonstrated.
    • I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
  • A public display of group opinion.
  • A show of military force.
  • A mathematical proof.
  • * , s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
    • He read the proposition. So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.

    Related terms

    * demonstrable * demonstrate * demonstrator * monster * remonstration