Synonyms: 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
Similar words: sternness, strictness
Definition: uncompromising resolution
Synonyms: gracelessness, clumsiness, stiffness, awkwardness
Definition: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
Similar words: inelegance
Definition: the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
Synonyms: stiffness
Definition: firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
Usage: a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity
Similar words: resoluteness, resolution, resolve, firmness, firmness of purpose
Definition: the trait of being resolute
Usage: his resoluteness carried him through the battle; it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work
Synonyms: stiffness
Definition: the property of moving with pain or difficulty
Usage: he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck
Similar words: awkwardness, clumsiness
Definition: the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
Synonyms: stiffness
Definition: the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
Similar words: inelasticity
Definition: the lack of elasticity