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rigidity
Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
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  1. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
  2. In Economics: synonym for stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.
  3. 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.
inflexibility
The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; obstinacy.
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  1. The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; obstinacy.
hardness
The state or quality of being hard (in various senses)
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  1. The state or quality of being hard (in various senses)
  2. A measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched. Hardness is measured on the Mohs scale.
  3. The relative resistance of a metal or other material to denting, scratching, or bending.
sternness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
  2. (Countable) The result or product of being stern.
harshness
The quality of being harsh.
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  1. The quality of being harsh.
hardship
The difficulty or distress resulting to an individual or entity from a court decision, zoning decision, or passage of a law; taken into account as one factor in an equity proceeding. The difficulty or distress resulting to an individual or entity from a court decision, zoning decision, or passage of a law; taken into account as one factor in an equity proceeding.
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  1. The difficulty or distress resulting to an individual or entity from a court decision, zoning decision, or passage of a law; taken into account as one factor in an equity proceeding. The difficulty or distress resulting to an individual or entity from a court decision, zoning decision, or passage of a law; taken into account as one factor in an equity proceeding.
  2. The condition of lacking necessities or comforts; privation or suffering.
  3. A thing or circumstance that causes ongoing or persistent suffering or difficulty:
difficulty
Something not easily done, accomplished, comprehended, or solved:
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  1. Something not easily done, accomplished, comprehended, or solved:
  2. Trouble, distress, etc., or a cause of this
  3. The condition or quality of being difficult:
austerity
An austere habit or practice.
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  1. An austere habit or practice.
  2. An austere act, habit, practice, or manner
  3. Severe and rigid economy:
severity
Rigorous or trying character
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  1. Rigorous or trying character
  2. Strictness; harshness
  3. The act or an instance of severe behavior, especially punishment.
strictness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
  2. (Countable) The result or product of being strict.
stringency
A rigorous imposition of standards
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  1. A rigorous imposition of standards
  2. A scarcity of money or credit
  3. The quality or state of being stringent; strictness; severity
inexorability
The quality or state of being inexorable.
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  1. The quality or state of being inexorable.
exactitude
The quality of being exact; precision; accuracy
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  1. The quality of being exact; precision; accuracy
  2. The state or quality of being exact.
preciseness
(Dated) pedantic behaviour
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  1. (Dated) pedantic behaviour
  2. The condition of being precise; precision
precision
(Mathematics) the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably
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  1. (Mathematics) the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably
  2. The number of significant digits to which a value has been reliably measured.
  3. The ability of a measurement to be consistently reproduced.
intolerance
The quality or condition of being intolerant; lack of tolerance.
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  1. The quality or condition of being intolerant; lack of tolerance.
  2. (Medicine) Extreme sensitivity or allergy to a drug, food, or other substance:
  3. Lack of tolerance, esp. of others' opinions, beliefs, etc.; bigotry
obstinacy
An obstinate act, attitude, etc.
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  1. An obstinate act, attitude, etc.
  2. The state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness.
  3. Resistance to treatment; persistence, as of a disease
tenacity
The quality or state of being tenacious
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  1. The quality or state of being tenacious
traditionalism
A system holding that all knowledge is derived from original divine revelation and is transmitted by tradition.
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  1. A system holding that all knowledge is derived from original divine revelation and is transmitted by tradition.
  2. A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude; the doctrine that human reason is of itself radically unable to know with certainty any truth or, at least, the fundamental truths of the metaphysical, moral, and religious order.
  3. The adherence to traditional views or practices, especially with regard to cultural or religious matters.
conventionalism
(Uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior
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  1. (Uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior
  2. (Uncountable, philosophy) The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions
relentlessness
The condition of being relentless.
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  1. The condition of being relentless.
austerity
The quality or condition of being austere
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  1. The quality or condition of being austere
  2. An austere act, habit, practice, or manner
  3. Severe and rigid economy:
hardness
The state or quality of being hard (in various senses)
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  1. The state or quality of being hard (in various senses)
  2. A measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched. Hardness is measured on the Mohs scale.
  3. The relative resistance of a metal or other material to denting, scratching, or bending.
harshness
The quality of being harsh.
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  1. The quality of being harsh.
rigidity
The quality or state of being rigid.
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  1. The quality or state of being rigid.
  2. In Economics: synonym for stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.
  3. 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.
severity
Rigid accuracy
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  1. Rigid accuracy
  2. The act or an instance of severe behavior, especially punishment.
  3. Strictness; harshness
sternness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
  2. (Countable) The result or product of being stern.
strictness
(Countable) The result or product of being strict.
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  1. (Countable) The result or product of being strict.
  2. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
stringency
A scarcity of money or credit
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  1. A scarcity of money or credit
  2. A rigorous imposition of standards
  3. The quality or state of being stringent; strictness; severity
toughness
(Uncountable) The state of being tough
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  1. (Uncountable) The state of being tough
  2. (Physics, of a metal) Resistance to fracture when stressed
  3. A formidable difficulty
asperity
A slight projection from a surface; a point or bump.
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  1. A slight projection from a surface; a point or bump.
  2. Severity; rigor.
  3. Roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, weather, etc. or of circumstances
difficulty
Trouble, distress, etc., or a cause of this
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  1. Trouble, distress, etc., or a cause of this
  2. Something not easily done, accomplished, comprehended, or solved:
  3. The condition or quality of being difficult:
hardship
(Countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
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  1. (Countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
  2. The difficulty or distress resulting to an individual or entity from a court decision, zoning decision, or passage of a law; taken into account as one factor in an equity proceeding. The difficulty or distress resulting to an individual or entity from a court decision, zoning decision, or passage of a law; taken into account as one factor in an equity proceeding.
  3. A thing or circumstance that causes ongoing or persistent suffering or difficulty:
vicissitude
A condition of constant change or alternation, as a natural process; mutability
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  1. A condition of constant change or alternation, as a natural process; mutability
  2. A difficulty that is likely to occur, esp. one that is inherent in a situation
  3. A usually unforeseen change in circumstance or experience that affects one's life, especially in a trying way:
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Sentence Examples

  • After death the position of the body may or may not be flexed; usually rigor mortis develops rapidly.

  • "He'd been dead for at least two days, then, long enough for rigor to set in and the body to start releasing gases," Wynn said.

  • Just ask anyone whose job demands a uniform sturdy enough to stand up to daily rigor and activity - the shoes are just as important as the clothes.

  • M ` Taggart, who closes his acute Studies in Hegelian Cosmology (rigor) with " the possibility of finding, above all knowledge and volition, one all-embracing unity, which is only not true, only not good, because all truth and all goodness are but distorted shadows of its absolute perfection- ` das Unbegreifliche, weil es der Begriff selbst ist.'

  • A jacket isn't meant to withstand the rigor of harsh winter weather, and as such is unlikely to provide much comfort in the face of, say, a snowstorm.

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