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inflexibility

noun

1 inflexibility

A lack of physical flexibility.

synonym: inflexibleness.

Roget 606: obstinateness etc. adj.; obstinacy, tenacity; cussedness [U.S.]; perseverance etc. 604.1; immovability; old school; inflexibility etc. (hardness) ... show more

Roget 246: straightness, rectilinearity, directness; inflexibility etc. (stiffness) 323; straight line, right line, direct line; short cut.   

2 inflexibility

The quality of being rigid and rigorously severe.

synonyms: rigidity, rigidness.

Roget 323: hardness etc. adj.; rigidity; renitence, renitency; inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity.    induration, petrifaction; lapidification, ... show more

Dutch: stijfheid, starheid, onbuigbaarheid


Moby thesaurus: act of God, adamantness, certainty, concentration, constancy, dourness, fate, fatefulness, firmness, firmness of mind, fixedness, flintiness, force majeure, fundamentalism, grimness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardness, immobility, immobilization ... show more.

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