'Inflexibility' definitions:
Definition of 'inflexibility'
(from WordNet)
noun
A lack of physical flexibility [syn: inflexibility, inflexibleness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness]
noun
The quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn: inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness]
Definition of 'Inflexibility'
From: GCIDE
- Inflexibility \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. [1913 Webster]
- The inflexibility of mechanism. --A. Baxter. [1913 Webster]
- That grave inflexibility of soul. --Churchill. [1913 Webster]
- The purity and inflexibility of their faith. --T. Warton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inflexibility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act of God,
- adamantness,
- certainty,
- concentration,
- constancy,
- dourness,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- firmness,
- firmness of mind,
- fixedness,
- flintiness,
- force majeure,
- fundamentalism,
- grimness,
- hard-bittenness,
- hard-nosedness,
- hardness,
- 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