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English

Noun

  1. rigidity
  2. inflexibility


Translations

es:stiffness fa:stiffness fr:stiffness io:stiffness ta:stiffness te:stiffness vi:stiffness zh:stiffness

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stiffness \Stiff"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of
cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of
character.
[1913 Webster]

The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too.
--South.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet stiffness
n 1: the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
2: the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke
with a painful stiffness in his neck"
3: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by
embarrassment) [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness]
4: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
[syn: severity, harshness, rigor, rigour, inclemency,
hardness]
Moby Dictionary
adamantness , aridity , barrenness , bloodlessness , buckram ,
ceremonial , ceremoniousness , ceremony , characterlessness ,
cohesiveness , colorlessness , costliness , deadness , dearness ,
dignity , dismalness , dourness , dragginess , dreariness , dryness ,
dullness , durability , dustiness , effeteness , emptiness , etiolation ,
extrinsicality , firmness , flatness , flintiness , form , formality ,
formalization , fundamentalism , gravity , great cost , grimness ,
hard-bittenness , hard-nosedness , hardiness , hardness , heaviness ,
highness , hollowness , immovability , immutability , impliability ,
inanity , inelasticity , inexcitability , inexorability ,
inflexibility , infrangibility , insipidity , insipidness ,
intransigeance , intransigence , intransigency , intransigentism ,
irreconcilability , jejunity , lastingness , leadenness ,
leatherlikeness , lifelessness , lowness of spirit , luxuriousness ,
obduracy , obdurateness , obstinacy , orthodoxy , paleness , pallor ,
pointlessness , pokiness , pomp , pomposity , ponderousness ,
precisianism , primness , purism , puritanism , relentlessness ,
renitence , renitency , resistance , richness , rigidity , rigidness ,
rigor , rigorism , rigorousness , ritual , rituality , ropiness ,
slowness , solemnity , spiritlessness , stamina , starchiness ,
steeliness , steepness , sterility , sternness , stiff temper ,
stiltedness , stodginess , strength , stringiness , stubbornness ,
stuffiness , stylization , sumptuousness , superficiality ,
tastelessness , tautness , tediousness , tenacity , tenseness , tension ,
tensity , tightness , toughness , unalterability , unbendingness ,
unbreakability , unbreakableness , unchangeability ,
uncompromisingness , ungivingness , uninterestingness , unliveliness ,
unrelentingness , unyieldingness , vapidity , vapidness , viscidity ,
vitality , weight , woodenness


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