Meaning of INFLEXIBILITY
| Pronunciation: | | `infl`eksub'ilutee
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- [n] the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
- [n] a lack of physical flexibility
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| | Synonyms: | | inflexibleness, rigidity |
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| | Antonyms: | | flexibility, flexibleness | | |
| | See Also: | | rigidness, unadaptability | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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