stiffness Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
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noun the property of moving with pain or difficulty
- he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck
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noun firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
- a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity
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noun the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
gracelessness; clumsiness; awkwardness.
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noun excessive sternness
harshness; severity; severeness; inclemency; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; hardness; rigourousness.
- severity of character
- the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
- the rigors of boot camp
WordNet
Stiff"ness noun
Definitions
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.