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Stiffness

Stiffness Meaning & Definition
Stiffness Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Stiffness?

[n] excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
[n] the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
[n] the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
[n] the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

Synonyms | Synonyms for Stiffness: awkwardness | clumsiness | gracelessness | hardness | harshness | inclemency | rigor | rigour | severity

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See Also | gaucherie | inelasticity | inelegance | rusticity | sternness | strictness

Stiffness In Webster's Dictionary

\Stiff"ness\, n. 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.

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