2 definitions found
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 1.6 [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; "the severity of his punishment was
inhuman" [syn: {severity}, {harshness}, {inclemency}, {hardness}]
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