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English

Noun

  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.
  2. stiffness|Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.


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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.
[1913 Webster]

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


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