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English

Noun

The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
stiffness|Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.

Antonyms

Translations

Finnish: jäykkyys, kankeus

Finnish: jäykkyys

References

Category:English nouns

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Rigidity \Ri*gid"i*ty\, n. [L. rigiditas: cf. F. rigidit['e].
See Rigid.]
1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability;
the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of
resistance with which a body opposes change of form; --
opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and
softness.
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2. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or
elegance. --Sir H. Wotton.
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3. Severity; rigor. [Obs. orR.] --Bp. Burnet.
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Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility.
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WordNet rigidity
n 1: the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
[syn: rigidness]
2: the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn: inflexibility]
[ant: flexibility]

Moby Dictionary
abidingness , absoluteness , accuracy , adamantness ,
attention to fact , care for truth , changelessness , concentration ,
constancy , correctness , delicacy , dourness , durability ,
durableness , duration , endurance , exactitude , exactness ,
faithfulness , faultlessness , fidelity , fineness , firmness ,
firmness of mind , fixedness , flawlessness , flintiness , frozenness ,
fundamentalism , grimness , hard-bittenness , hard-nosedness ,
hardening , hardness , immobility , immobilization , immovability ,
immovableness , immutability , implacability , impliability ,
inelasticity , inertia , inexorability , inextricability ,
inflexibility , intransigeance , intransigence , intransigency ,
intransigentism , invariability , invariableness , inveteracy ,
irreconcilability , irremovability , lastingness , literalism ,
literality , literalness , long standing , loyalty ,
mathematical precision , meticulousness , niceness , nicety , obduracy ,
obdurateness , obstinacy , orthodoxy , perfection , permanence ,
permanency , perpetualness , persistence , persistency , preciseness ,
precisianism , precision , purism , puritanism , quiescence ,
refinement , relentlessness , renitence , renitency , right , rightness ,
rigidness , rigor , rigorism , rigorousness , settledness , severity ,
solidity , stability , standing , starchiness , stasis , staunchness ,
steadfastness , steadiness , steeliness , sternness , stiff temper ,
stiffness , strictness , stubbornness , subtlety , tautness , tenseness ,
tension , tensity , textualism , the letter , tightness , torpor ,
toughness , trueness , unalterability , unbendingness ,
unchangeability , unchangingness , uncompromisingness , ungivingness ,
unmovability , unrelentingness , unyieldingness , vis inertiae