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stiffness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness |
| Type of | inelegance |
| Has types | woodenness, gaucherie, rusticity |
| Derivation | stiff |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
| Type of | strictness, sternness |
stiffness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolve, resolution |
| Derivation | stiff |
a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity.
stiffness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | inelasticity |
| Derivation | stiff |
stiffness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | clumsiness, awkwardness |
| Derivation | stiff |
he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck.
Examples of stiffness
stiffness
Cook, already on the shelf with shoulder stiffness, caught the finger in a door.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Young was in the lineup for Game 2, but didn't play Game 3 because of stiffness.
From the stltoday.com
Arizona ace Brandon Webb will skip his next start because of shoulder stiffness.
From the post-gazette.com
He played until the seventh when he was removed with stiffness in his hamstring.
From the newsday.com
Arnicare Gel is a homeopathic treatment for sore muscles, stiffness and bruises.
From the al.com
The main joint symptoms of psoriatic arthritis are pain, stiffness and swelling.
From the forbes.com
These structures would be even more useful if their stiffness could be adjusted.
From the newscientist.com
That stiffness at times extends to his vocal tone, but he can certainly deliver.
From the guardian.co.uk
But lo and behold, the ache and stiffness and throbbing and misery would return.
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- The physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
- The property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
- Firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"
- Awkwardness: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- Severity: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
- Stiffness is the resistance of an elastic body to deformation by an applied force along a given degree of freedom (DOF) when a set of loading points and boundary conditions are prescribed on the elastic body. It is an extensive material property.
- Rigidity or a measure of rigidity; inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility
- The spring-like quality of mechanical and hydraulic elements to elasticity deform under load.
- That property of paper by which it resists deflection from an external source.
