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English to English noun
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the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend |  | source: wordnet30
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the property of moving with pain or difficulty | | Example: he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck
source: wordnet30
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firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action | | Example: a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity
source: wordnet30
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the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | | source: wordnet30
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excessive sternness | | Example: severity of character
the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
the rigors of boot camp
source: wordnet30
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The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. | | source: webster1913
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