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Synonyms for stiffness
stiff·ness
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Princeton's WordNet
stiffnessnoun
the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
Synonyms:
gracelessness, rigour, awkwardness, severeness, hardness, severity, rigourousness, inclemency, clumsiness, rigorousness, harshness, rigorstiffnessnoun
the property of moving with pain or difficulty
"he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
Synonyms:
gracelessness, rigour, awkwardness, severeness, hardness, severity, rigourousness, inclemency, clumsiness, rigorousness, harshness, rigorstiffnessnoun
firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
"a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"
Synonyms:
gracelessness, rigour, awkwardness, severeness, hardness, severity, rigourousness, inclemency, clumsiness, rigorousness, harshness, rigorawkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffnessnoun
the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
Synonyms:
hardness, maladroitness, severeness, rigor, slowness, cumbersomeness, nuisance value, ineptness, rigour, harshness, inclemency, clumsiness, gracelessness, ungracefulness, rigorousness, awkwardness, severity, rigourousness, unwieldiness, ineptitudeseverity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffnessnoun
excessive sternness
"severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
Synonyms:
insensibility, ruggedness, callosity, grimness, awkwardness, severeness, rigor, unfeelingness, austereness, harshness, hardness, asperity, callousness, scratchiness, roughness, cogency, gracelessness, inclemency, inclementness, badness, bad weather, hardship, rigorousness, cruelty, cruelness, clumsiness, abrasiveness, severity, rigourousness, rigour, validity
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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
stiffnessnoun
Synonyms:
inflexibility, rigidity, firmness, prudery, constraint, precision, formality, tensionAntonyms:
pliability, limpness, flexibility, flaccidity, ease, relaxation, informality
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "stiffness":
rigidity, inflexibility, rigor, steepness, rigid, stiff, tightness, stickiness, inflexible
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#8779 | validity | |
#10009 | severity | |
#11182 | rigid | |
#12588 | stiff | |
#18006 | cruelty | |
#18786 | hardship | |
#20803 | hardness | |
#23226 | stiffness | |
#28398 | badness | |
#31409 | rigidity | |
#33513 | roughness | |
#38903 | rigor | |
#40994 | tightness | |
#42074 | inflexible | |
#53531 | slowness | |
#64493 | rigour | |
#66484 | stickiness | |
#70255 | harshness | |
#76733 | awkwardness | |
#79193 | ineptitude | |
#95824 | inflexibility | |
#96353 | ruggedness | |
#101812 | clumsiness | |
#108230 | steepness | |
#140157 | callousness | |
#166485 | ineptness | |
#189206 | insensibility | |
#209122 | asperity | |
#213211 | cogency | |
#256029 | grimness |
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People who start to experience occasional pain, stiffness and weakness may have early osteoarthritis, the most common type of arthritis impacting more than 30 million Americans.
Exercise can really help the motor-symptoms of Parkinson’s including the tremors, the stiffness, the slowness, the walking, and the balance problems, exercise can also help the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s, so the mood problems including depression or anxiety, and also the sleep changes.
We saw active reversal of ventricular function, reverse remodeling, heart chambers actually got smaller and more muscular, and stoppage of fibrosis that limits the stiffness of the heart.
My main symptoms are the stiffness in my left arm and a slowed, shuffling gait, i am busier and have more responsibility today than ever before in my political career, and I couldn't be happier about that.
You can imagine a balloon that gets filled up with water, and then you have this tense sheath that's surrounding the balloon, and that's what gives you the stiffness with an erection. And the fracture is a rupture of the balloon and the sheath surrounding the balloon, the vast majority of cases are one-sided, or unilateral, corporal ruptures. But sometimes Rajveer Purohit do have someone who's had a bilateral, or two-sided, corporal fracture involving the urethra.
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