Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
[1913 Webster]
The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too.
--South.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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: firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a
charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"
4: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by
embarrassment) [syn: {awkwardness}, {clumsiness},
{gracelessness}, {stiffness}]
5: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
[syn: {severity}, {severeness}, {harshness}, {rigor},
{rigour}, {rigorousness}, {rigourousness}, {inclemency},
{hardness}, {stiffness}]
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