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Definition of 'stiffness'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) stiffness
the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

2. (noun) stiffness
the property of moving with pain or difficulty
"he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"

3. (noun) stiffness
firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
"a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"

4. (noun) awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness
the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

5. (noun) severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness
excessive sternness
"severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"

Definition of 'stiffness'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) stiffness
the quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character

Translation of 'stiffness'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (of a person or his manner etc) formal and unfriendly I received a stiff note from the bank manager.
Afrikaans: styfheid	Arabic: صَلابَه	Bulgarian: твърдост
Brazilian: rigidez	Czech: upjatost; ztuhlost	German: die Steifheit
Danish: stivhed; unaturlighed	Greek: δυσκολία, δυσκαμψία, ψυχρ	Spanish: rigidez
Estonian: jäikus	Farsi: حالت خشك و رسمي	Finnish: jäykkyys
French: raideur	Hebrew: נוֹקשוּת	Hindi: कठोरता, सख्ती, औपचारिकता,
Croatian: krutost, ukočenost	Hungarian: merevség, feszesség, kemé	Indonesian: kekakuan
Icelandic: stífni	Italian: rigidezza	Japanese: 堅苦しさ
Korean: 뻣뻣함	Lithuanian: oficialumas	Latvian: stīvums; formalitāte
Malay: ketegasan	Dutch: stijfheid	Norwegian: stivhet; formalitet
Polish: uczucie sztywności	Portuguese: rigidez	Romanian: rigiditate
Russian: чопорность	Slovak: upätosť; nehybnosť	Slovenian: togost
Serbian: krutost	Swedish: stelhet	Thai: ความแข็งทื่อไม่หยืดหยุ่น
Turkish: sertlik; soğukluk	Taiwanese: 僵硬	Ukrainian: негнучкість; здерев'янілі
Urdu: سختی	Vietnamese: sự cứng, không thân mật,	Chinese: 僵硬
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