n. | 1. | The quality or state of being stiff; |
Noun | 1. | stiffness - the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend |
2. | stiffness - the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck" | |
3. | stiffness - the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | |
4. | stiffness - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" |