'Stiffness' definitions:
Definition of 'stiffness'
(from WordNet)
noun
The physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
noun
The property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
noun
Firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"
noun
The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness]
noun
Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness]
Definition of 'Stiffness'
From: GCIDE
- Stiffness \Stiff"ness\, n. The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. [1913 Webster]
- The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. --South. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stiffness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adamantness,
- aridity,
- barrenness,
- bloodlessness,
- buckram,
- ceremonial,
- ceremoniousness,
- ceremony,
- characterlessness,
- cohesiveness,
- colorlessness,
- costliness,
- deadness,
- dearness,
- dignity,
- dismalness,
- dourness,
- dragginess,
- dreariness,
- dryness,
- dullness,
- durability,
- dustiness,
- effeteness,
- emptiness,
- etiolation,
- extrinsicality,
- firmness,
- flatness,
- flintiness,
- form,
- formality,
- formalization,
- fundamentalism,
- gravity,
- great cost,
- grimness,
- hard-bittenness,
- hard-nosedness,
- hardiness,
- hardness,
- heaviness,
- highness,
- hollowness,
- immovability,
- immutability,
- impliability,
- inanity,
- inelasticity,
- inexcitability,
- inexorability,
- inflexibility,
- infrangibility,
- insipidity,
- insipidness,
- intransigeance,
- intransigence,
- intransigency,
- intransigentism,
- irreconcilability,
- jejunity,
- lastingness,
- leadenness,
- leatherlikeness,
- lifelessness,
- lowness of spirit,
- luxuriousness,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- obstinacy,
- orthodoxy,
- paleness,
- pallor,
- pointlessness,
- pokiness,
- pomp,
- pomposity,
- ponderousness,
- precisianism,
- primness,
- purism,
- puritanism,
- relentlessness,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- resistance,
- richness,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- rigorism,
- rigorousness,
- ritual,
- rituality,
- ropiness,
- slowness,
- solemnity,
- spiritlessness,
- stamina,
- starchiness,
- steeliness,
- steepness,
- sterility,
- sternness,
- stiff temper,
- stiltedness,
- stodginess,
- strength,
- stringiness,
- stubbornness,
- stuffiness,
- stylization,
- sumptuousness,
- superficiality,
- tastelessness,
- tautness,
- tediousness,
- tenacity,
- tenseness,
- tension,
- tensity,
- tightness,
- toughness,
- unalterability,
- unbendingness,
- unbreakability,
- unbreakableness,
- unchangeability,
- uncompromisingness,
- ungivingness,
- uninterestingness,
- unliveliness,
- unrelentingness,
- unyieldingness,
- vapidity,
- vapidness,
- viscidity,
- vitality,
- weight,
- woodenness