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stiffness
noun
excessive sternness
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noun
excessive sternness
“severity of character”
noun
the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
noun
firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
“a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity”
noun
the property of moving with pain or difficulty
“he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck”
noun
the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
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severity of character
the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
the rigors of boot camp
a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity
he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck
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