'Rigidity' definitions:
Definition of 'rigidity'
From: WordNet
noun
The physical property of being stiff and resisting bending [syn: rigidity, rigidness]
noun
The quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn: inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness]
Definition of 'Rigidity'
From: GCIDE
- Rigidity \Ri*gid"i*ty\, n. [L. rigiditas: cf. F. rigidit['e]. See Rigid.]
- 1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Severity; rigor. [Obs. orR.] --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rigidity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abidingness,
- absoluteness,
- accuracy,
- adamantness,
- attention to fact,
- care for truth,
- changelessness,
- concentration,
- constancy,
- correctness,
- delicacy,
- dourness,
- durability,
- durableness,
- duration,
- endurance,
- exactitude,
- exactness,
- faithfulness,
- faultlessness,
- fidelity,
- fineness,
- firmness,
- firmness of mind,
- fixedness,
- flawlessness,
- flintiness,
- frozenness,
- fundamentalism,
- grimness,
- hard-bittenness,
- hard-nosedness,
- hardening,
- hardness,
- immobility,
- immobilization,
- immovability,
- immovableness,
- immutability,
- implacability,
- impliability,
- inelasticity,
- inertia,
- inexorability,
- inextricability,
- inflexibility,
- intransigeance,
- intransigence,
- intransigency,
- intransigentism,
- invariability,
- invariableness,
- inveteracy,
- irreconcilability,
- irremovability,
- lastingness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- long standing,
- loyalty,
- mathematical precision,
- meticulousness,
- niceness,
- nicety,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- obstinacy,
- orthodoxy,
- perfection,
- permanence,
- permanency,
- perpetualness,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- preciseness,
- precisianism,
- precision,
- purism,
- puritanism,
- quiescence,
- refinement,
- relentlessness,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- right,
- rightness,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- rigorism,
- rigorousness,
- settledness,
- severity,
- solidity,
- stability,
- standing,
- starchiness,
- stasis,
- staunchness,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- steeliness,
- sternness,
- stiff temper,
- stiffness,
- strictness,
- stubbornness,
- subtlety,
- tautness,
- tenseness,
- tension,
- tensity,
- textualism,
- the letter,
- tightness,
- torpor,
- toughness,
- trueness,
- unalterability,
- unbendingness,
- unchangeability,
- unchangingness,
- uncompromisingness,
- ungivingness,
- unmovability,
- unrelentingness,
- unyieldingness,
- vis inertiae