Meaning of STIFFNESS
| Pronunciation: | | st'ifnus
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigour, severity |
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| | See Also: | | gaucherie, inelasticity, inelegance, rusticity, sternness, strictness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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