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1Rigidity — Ri*gid i*ty, n. [L. rigiditas: cf. F. rigidit[ e]. See {Rigid}.] 1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; opposed to… …
2rigidity — noun 1. the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending • Syn: ↑rigidness • Derivationally related forms: ↑rigid (for: ↑rigidness), ↑rigid, ↑rigidify …
3rigidness — noun 1. the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending • Syn: ↑rigidity • Derivationally related forms: ↑rigid, ↑rigid (for: ↑rigidity), ↑rigidify (for: ↑ …
4rigidity — n. 1. Stiffness, inflexibility, rigidness, want of pliability. 2. Severity, rigor, harshness, strictness, austerity, rigidness. 3. Ungracefulness, want of ease, stiffness …
5rigidity — Synonyms and related words: abidingness, absoluteness, accuracy, adamantness, attention to fact, care for truth, changelessness, concentration, constancy, correctness, delicacy, dourness, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, exactitude,… …
6rigidity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality or state of being stubbornly inflexible: die hardism, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence,… …
7rigidness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being stubbornly inflexible: die hardism, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence,… …
8rigidness — n. See rigidity …
9literalness — n 1. literality, accuracy, exactness, exactitude, precision, preciseness, closeness, faithfulness, trueness, truth, authenticity, honesty, ex plicitness; unambiguousness, unambiguity, clearness, unequivocality; factualness, factuality, actuality …
10orthodoxy — n 1. religious belief, belief, faith, creed, credo; faith, true faith, truth, gospel truth, word of God; authoritativeness, authenticity, canoni calness, doctrinalness; soundness, correctness, ac curateness, faithfulness, Tightness, properness,… …
