Word Meanings - ERECTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Uprightness of posture or form.

Related words: (words related to ERECTNESS)

• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• POSTURE
  1. The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially , the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action
• POSTURER
  One who postures.
• SELF-IMPOSTURE
  Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.
• COMPOSTURE
  Manure; compost. Shak.
• IMPOSTURE
  The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson. Syn. -- Cheat; fraud; trick; imposition; delusion.
• IMPOSTURED
  Done by imposture.
• EXPOSTURE
  Exposure. Shak.