English dictionary
stiffness
nounParts of speech
Definitions
noun
- excessive sternness
noun
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
noun
- firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
noun
- the property of moving with pain or difficulty
noun
- the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
Example sentences
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