stiffness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stiffness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for stiffness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stiffness n the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck" firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity" the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) Synonym(s): awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" Synonym(s): severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. --South.