Rigidity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rigidity \Ri*gid"i*ty\, n. [L. rigiditas: cf. F. rigidit['e].
     See {Rigid}.]
     1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability;
        the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of
        resistance with which a body opposes change of form; --
        opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and


        softness.
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     2. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or
        elegance. --Sir H. Wotton.
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     3. Severity; rigor. [Obs. orR.] --Bp. Burnet.
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     Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rigidity
       n 1: the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
            [syn: {rigidness}]
       2: the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn: {inflexibility}]
          [ant: {flexibility}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "rigidity":
     abidingness, absoluteness, accuracy, adamantness,
     attention to fact, care for truth, changelessness, concentration,
     constancy, correctness, delicacy, dourness, durability,
     durableness, duration, endurance, exactitude, exactness,
     faithfulness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, firmness,
     firmness of mind, fixedness, flawlessness, flintiness, frozenness,
     fundamentalism, grimness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness,
     hardening, hardness, immobility, immobilization, immovability,
     immovableness, immutability, implacability, impliability,
     inelasticity, inertia, inexorability, inextricability,
     inflexibility, intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency,
     intransigentism, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy,
     irreconcilability, irremovability, lastingness, literalism,
     literality, literalness, long standing, loyalty,
     mathematical precision, meticulousness, niceness, nicety, obduracy,
     obdurateness, obstinacy, orthodoxy, perfection, permanence,
     permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, preciseness,
     precisianism, precision, purism, puritanism, quiescence,
     refinement, relentlessness, renitence, renitency, right, rightness,
     rigidness, rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, settledness, severity,
     solidity, stability, standing, starchiness, stasis, staunchness,
     steadfastness, steadiness, steeliness, sternness, stiff temper,
     stiffness, strictness, stubbornness, subtlety, tautness, tenseness,
     tension, tensity, textualism, the letter, tightness, torpor,
     toughness, trueness, unalterability, unbendingness,
     unchangeability, unchangingness, uncompromisingness, ungivingness,
     unmovability, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vis inertiae