stiffness
Nouns
- (n) the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
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(n) the property of moving with pain or difficulty
- he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck
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(n) firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
- a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity
- (n) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) gracelessness, clumsiness, awkwardness,
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(n) excessive sternness
- severity of character
- the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
- the rigors of boot camp