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stiffness |
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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