Noun
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excessive sternness
"severity of character"
"the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"
"the rigors of boot camp"
- rigourousness -
the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
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firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
"a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"
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the property of moving with pain or difficulty
"he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
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the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend