Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inflexibility"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
The inflexibility of mechanism. --A. Baxter.
That grave inflexibility of soul. --Churchill.
The purity and inflexibility of their faith. --T.
Warton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inflexibility
n 1: a lack of physical flexibility [syn: {inflexibleness}] [ant:
{flexibility}]
2: the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn: {rigidity}]
[ant: {flexibility}]
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