inflexibility Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a lack of physical flexibility
    inflexibleness.
  2. noun the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
    rigidity; rigidness.

WordNet

In*flex"i*bil"i*ty noun
Etymology
Cf. F. inflexibilité.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913