Main entry: rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, inclemency, hardness, harshness, stiffness
Definition: excessive sternness
Usage: severity of character; the harshness of his punishment was inhuman; the rigors of boot camp
Main entry: gracelessness, clumsiness, stiffness, awkwardness
Definition: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
Main entry: stiffness
Definition: firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
Usage: a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity
Main entry: stiffness
Definition: the property of moving with pain or difficulty
Usage: he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck
Main entry: stiffness
Definition: the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend