Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stiffness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too.
--South.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

stiffness
n 1: the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
2: the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke
with a painful stiffness in his neck"
3: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by
embarrassment) [syn: {awkwardness}, {clumsiness}, {gracelessness}]
4: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
[syn: {severity}, {harshness}, {rigor}, {rigour}, {inclemency},
{hardness}]


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