stiffness
stiffness noun: rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
Noun
stiffness (countable and uncountable, plural stiffnesses)
- Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
- Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
- Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
- His stiffness hampered the conversation.
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States....2024 September 6, David Zelman, “Understanding Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis -- the Basics”, in WebMD
stiffness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
stiffness in Hindi
- stiffness
- अकड़ akaṛ
stiffness in Tamil
- விறைப்பு, கெட்டி
stiffness in Urdu
- درشتی, سختی
stiffness in Bengali
- কাঠিন্য, জড়তা, আরষ্টতা
More languagesFewer languages
- stiffness in Malayalam
- മൂരി mūri
- stiffness in Kannada
- ಒಟ್ಟಿ, ಜುಮ್ಮು, ಜಿವಿ, ಚೊಮ್ಮು
- stiffness in Sanskrit
- जाड्य jāḍya
Examples of stiffness in a sentence
- He arched his back into a half-moon curve trying to get the stiffness out.
- The cardboard backing gives the notebook a little extra stiffness.
- However, we were unable to measure changes of in vivo implant stiffness between pre- and postinduction.
Forms of stiffness
| plural | stiffnesses |
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Origin of stiffness
From Middle English stiffenes, styffenesse, styfnesse; equivalent to stiff + -ness. Perhaps merging with Middle English stithnesse, stithnysse, from Old English stīþness (“stiffness”).
Words formed from stiffness
Questions about stiffness
- What does stiffness mean?
- Stiffness means rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
- What is stiffness in Hindi?
- Stiffness in Hindi is अकड़ (akaṛ). See Stiffness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is stiffness?
- Stiffness is a noun.
- What is the plural of stiffness?
- The plural of stiffness is stiffnesses.
Words near stiffness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stiffness (page history and authors); अकड़ (Hindi) (page history and authors); stiffness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stiffness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stiffness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); മൂരി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); stiffness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); जाड्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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