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Stiffness

noun

The physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend.

The property of moving with pain or difficulty.

Firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action.

The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment). Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness.

Excessive sternness. Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity. "The harshness of his punishment was inhuman" , "The rigors of boot camp"

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"Stiffness" Quotes from Famous Books

... riot scenes faded on the television screen, and then the face of the announcer appeared, like the Sun coming from behind a cloud. "And now, friends," he said, "I have a special message from the makers of anti-gerasone, a message for all you folks over 150. Are you hampered socially by wrinkles, by stiffness of joints and discoloration or loss of hair, all because these things came upon you before anti-gerasone was developed? Well, if you are, you need no longer suffer, need no longer feel different ...

— The Big Trip Up Yonder • Kurt Vonnegut

... they met with bad weather and lost their foretop-gallant mast, but the rough handling they got was credited with improving the sailing qualities of the ship, as it took some of the stiffness out of her upperworks. A meteor was noted on the 23rd, like a small bright cloud, emitting flames, travelling rapidly westward, and disappearing slowly with two sharp explosions. The same day an eclipse ...

— The Life of Captain James Cook • Arthur Kitson

... The long and short of it was that, after a couple of hours fruit-picking—and it took her no less to get together the supply she'd reckoned on for her afternoon customers—she entered the house with a feeling of stiffness in her back and a feeling that answered to it elsewhere, that maybe Nandy was a better boy than she'd given him credit for. Upon top of this feeling she pushed open the door and spied his ...

— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... find a small hickory sapling it will be the most serviceable, because its natural strength and stiffness will permit us to use a small and ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay

... gigantic rowels, a round-crowned small-brimmed black hat, with an ostrich feather placed in the side and hanging over the top, a long rapier on his hip, and a dagger in his girdle. This buckram attire, it will be easily conceived, contributed no little to the natural stiffness ...

— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

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