| 释义 |
Noun: stiffness stifnus- The physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
- The property of moving with pain or difficulty
"he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck" - Firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
"a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity" - The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness - Excessive sternness
- severity, severeness, harshness, rigor [US], rigour [Brit, Cdn], rigorousness, rigourousness [Brit, non-standard], inclemency, hardness
Derived forms: stiffnesses See also: stiff Type of: awkwardness, clumsiness, firmness, firmness of purpose, inelasticity, inelegance, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, sternness, strictness Encyclopedia: Stiffness |