Top synonyms for “stiffness”: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, and 4 more below.
Definitions
- (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
Definitions sourced from Princeton WordNet (BSD license).
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Common synonyms for "stiffness" include awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, hardness, harshness, inclemency. Our thesaurus lists 12 total alternatives drawn from Princeton WordNet. Click any synonym to find its rhymes.
What does "stiffness" mean?
excessive sternness Example: "severity of character"
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