STIFFNESS
\stˈɪfnəs], \stˈɪfnəs], \s_t_ˈɪ_f_n_ə_s]\
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the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
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excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
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the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
By Princeton University
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the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
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excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
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the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
By Oddity Software
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n. State of being stiff; want of pliancy or flexibility ; rigidity ;-consisteney ; thickness ; spissitude, as of semi-fluid substances ;-inaptitude for motion : torpidity, as of the joints or limbs; -tension; inelasticity, as of a cord;-obstinacy ; stubbornness of disposition ;-formality ; constraint, as of manner ;-harshness ; rigorousness;-want of ease and simplicity ;-hard and precise manner, as of speaking or writing.
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