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stiffness

English

  1. 🔊 firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
    “a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity”
  2. 🔊 the property of moving with pain or difficulty
    “he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck”
  3. 🔊 the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
  4. 🔊 the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
  5. 🔊 excessive sternness
    “severity of character”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 apresto stiffness
  2. 🔊 tiesura stiffness

Similar words

severity severeness harshness rigor rigour rigorousness rigourousness inclemency hardness awkwardness clumsiness gracelessness adamantness aridity barrenness bloodlessness buckram ceremonial ceremoniousness ceremony characterlessness cohesiveness colorlessness costliness