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stiffness

noun

1 stiffness

The physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend.

Roget 150: stability; immutability etc. adj.; unchangeability, etc. adj.; unchangeableness; constancy; stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, ... show more

Roget 579: inelegance; stiffness etc. adj.; unlettered Muse" [Gray]; barbarism; slang etc. 563; solecism etc. 568; mannerism ... show more

Roget 855: affectation; affectedness etc. adj.; acting a part etc. v.; pretense etc. (falsehood) 544, (ostentation) 882; boasting ... show more

Dutch: onbuigzaamheid, rigiditeit, stijfheid, stugheid
Polish: sztywność

2 stiffness

The property of moving with pain or difficulty.

3 stiffness

Firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action.

4 stiffness

The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment).

synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness.

Dutch: gehannes, geklooi

5 stiffness

Excessive sternness.

synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity.

Dutch: gestrengheid, strengheid
Polish: surowość, srogość


Moby thesaurus: adamantness, aridity, barrenness, bloodlessness, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, characterlessness, cohesiveness, colorlessness, costliness, deadness, dearness, dignity, dismalness, dourness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness ... show more.

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