Stiffness

n.

1.

The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. - South.

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) Synonyms: gracelessness, clumsiness, awkwardness
	4.	stiffness - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" Synonyms: inclemency, rigor, rigour, severity, hardness, harshness

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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