STIFFNESS

• (noun) excessive sternness

  "severity of character", "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman", "the rigors of boot camp"

  synonyms : hardness , harshness , inclemency , rigor , rigorousness , rigour , rigourousness , severeness , severity

• (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

  synonyms : awkwardness , clumsiness , gracelessness

• (noun) firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action

  "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"

• (noun) the property of moving with pain or difficulty

  "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"

• (noun) the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

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