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nounthe inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
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"a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"nounfirm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
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nounthe physical property of being inflexible and hard to bendtype of:
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"he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"nounthe property of moving with pain or difficultytype of:
Definition that contains stiffness
- stretched (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching
- yielding lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure
- flaccid drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness
- wiry of hair that resembles wire in stiffness
- liniment a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain
- pulpy like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness
- embrocation a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain
- squashy like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness
- slouchy lacking stiffness in form or posture
- spondylitis inflammation of a spinal joint; characterized by pain and stiffness