Defenition of the word stiffness
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Defenition of the word stiffness
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- excessive sternness; "the severity of his punishment was inhuman"
- the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
- the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
- excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
- excessive sternness
- firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
- the property of moving with pain or difficulty
Synonyms for the word stiffness
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- aloofness
- arduousness
- awkwardness
- clumsiness
- difficulty
- excessiveness
- extremity
- firmness
- formality
- gracelessness
- hardness
- harshness
- inclemency
- inflexibility
- intensity
- laboriousness
- pomposity
- power
- rigidity
- rigorousness
- robustness
- severity
- solidity
- standoffishness
- steepness
- stiltedness
- strength
- stringency
- stuffiness
- tautness
- toughness
- vigor
- woodenness
Similar words in the stiffness
Hyponyms for the word stiffness
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- gaucherie
- rusticity
- woodenness
Hypernyms for the word stiffness
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- awkwardness
- clumsiness
- firmness
- firmness of purpose
- inelasticity
- inelegance
- resoluteness
- resolution
- resolve
- sternness
- strictness
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