SkyfireDict

stiffness   (TTS Sound)

The noun stiffness has 5 senses

• stiffness -- (the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend)


• stiffness -- (the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck")


• stiffness -- (firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity")


• awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness -- (the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment))


• severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness -- (excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp")