About The Word Stiffness
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Stiffness
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Stiffness: 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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