Inflexibility Definition & Meaning

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Inflexibility

Inflexibility Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Inflexibility? [n] the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [n] a lack of physical flexibility Synonyms \| Synonyms for Inflexibility: inflexibleness \| rigidity Related Terms \| Find terms related to Inflexibility: act of God \| adamantness \| certainty \| concentration \| constancy \| dourness \| fate \| fatefulness \| firmness \| firmness of mind \| fixedness \| flintiness \| force majeure \| fundamentalism \| grimness \| hard-bittenness \| hardness \| hard-nosedness \| immobility \| immobilization \| immovability \| immovableness \| immutability \| implacability \| impliability \| indefeasibility \| inductility \| inelasticity \| ineluctability \| inertia \| inescapableness \| inevasibleness \| inevitability \| inevitable accident \| inevitableness \| inexorability \| inextensibility \| inextricability \| intractability \| intransigeance \| intransigence \| intransigency \| intransigentism \| irreconcilability \| irremovability \| irresilience \| irresiliency \| irrevocability \| loyalty \| necessity \| obduracy \| obdurateness \| obstinacy \| orthodoxy \| precisianism \| predetermination \| purism \| puritanism \| relentlessness \| rigidity \| rigidness \| rigor \| rigorism \| rigorousness \| settledness \| solidity \| staunchness \| steadfastness \| steadiness \| steeliness \| sternness \| stiff temper \| stiffness \| stubbornness \| sureness \| toughness \| trueness \| unalterability \| unavoidable casualty \| unavoidableness \| unbendingness \| unchangeability \| uncompromisingness \| uncontrollability \| undeflectability \| ungivingness \| unlimberness \| unmalleability \| unmovability \| unpliability \| unpreventability \| unrelentingness \| unyieldingness \| vis inertiae \| vis major See Also \| rigidness \| unadaptability Inflexibility In Webster's Dictionary \Inflex"ibil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. inflexibilit['e].] The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. --A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. --Churchill. The purity and inflexibility of their faith. --T. Warton.

Inflexibility Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Inflexibility?

[n] the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
[n] a lack of physical flexibility

Synonyms | Synonyms for Inflexibility: inflexibleness | rigidity

See Also | rigidness | unadaptability

Inflexibility In Webster's Dictionary

\In*flex"i*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
inflexibilit['e].]
The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of
being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness;
rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity;
steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy.

      The inflexibility of mechanism.          --A. Baxter.

      That grave inflexibility of soul.        --Churchill.

      The purity and inflexibility of their faith. --T.
                                               Warton.

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