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Rigidness

noun

The physical property of being stiff and resisting bending. Synonym: rigidity.

The quality of being rigid and rigorously severe. Synonyms: inflexibility, rigidity.

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"Rigidness" Quotes from Famous Books

... table with their finger-tips, and ever bringing to bear the full force of their minds on it, in the unconquerable hope that it would move. Conversely, nothing is more dismal than to see set in permanent rigidness a thing whose aspect is linked for us with the idea of great mobility. Even the blithest of us and least easily depressed would make a long detour to avoid a stuffed squirrel or a case of pinned butterflies. And you can well ...

— And Even Now - Essays • Max Beerbohm

... all this was visible. Holland was a country just like any other country, and what was more, a country in no wise primitive, not at all simple, for the Protestant religion with its formal hypocricies and solemn rigidness held ...

— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

Words linked to "Rigidness" : rigidity, unadaptability, inflexibleness, flexibility, inelasticity, inflexibility, rigid