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stiffness
 
Noun stiffness has 4 senses
  1. stiffness - the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
    --1 is a kind of     inelasticity
  2. stiffness - the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
    --2 is a kind of     awkwardness, clumsiness
  3. awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness - the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
    --3 is a kind of inelegance
    --3 has particulars: rusticity, gaucherie
  4. severity, harshness, rigor, rigour, inclemency, hardness, stiffness - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
    --4 is a kind of sternness, strictness
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