| Main Entry: | stiffness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inflexibility |
Synonyms: |
constraint, firmness, formality, precision, prudery, rigidity, rigor, tension |
Antonyms: |
ease, flaccidity, flexibility, informality, limpness, pliability, relaxation |
| Main Entry: | austerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
Synonyms: |
acerbity, asperity, astringence, coldness, exactingness, exactness, formality, formalness, gravity, grimness, hardness, harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, obduracy, rigidity, rigor, seriousness, solemnity, sternness, stiffness, strictness, stringency |
Antonyms: |
blandness, calmness, gentility, meekness, mildness |
| Main Entry: | cramp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
Synonyms: |
ache, charley horse, circumscription, confinement, constipation, contraction, convulsion, crick, hindrance, impediment, kink, obstruction, pain, pang, restriction, shooting pain, stiffness, stitch, stricture, twinge |
| Main Entry: | distance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloofness |
Synonyms: |
coldness, coolness, frigidity, reserve, restraint, stiffness |
Antonyms: |
affection, friendliness, sympathy, warmth |
| Main Entry: | rigor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strictness, exactness |
Synonyms: |
accuracy, affliction, asperity, austerity, conscientiousness, conventionalism, difficulty, exactitude, firmness, hardness, hardship, harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, intolerance, meticulousness, obduracy, ordeal, preciseness, precision, privation, punctiliousness, rigidity, roughness, severity, sternness, stiffness, stringency, suffering, tenacity, thoroughness, traditionalism, trial, tribulation, vicissitude, visitation |
Antonyms: |
ease, elasticity, flexibility, leniency, pliability |
| Main Entry: | tension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tightness |
Synonyms: |
astriction, balance, constriction, force, pressure, rigidity, stiffness, strain, straining, stress, stretching, tautness, tenseness, tensity |
Antonyms: |
limpness, looseness, relaxation, slack |
| Main Entry: | texture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charactertistics of a surface |
Synonyms: |
arrangement, balance, being, character, coarseness, composition, consistency, constitution, disposition, essence, essentiality, fabric, feel, feeling, fiber, fineness, flexibility, form, framework, grain, intermixture, make, makeup, nap, nature, organization, pattern, quality, roughness, scheme, sense, smoothness, stiffness, strategy, structure, surface, taste, tissue, touch, warp, weave, web, woof |
| Main Entry: | frigidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impassivity |
Synonyms: |
aloofness, coldness, indifference, stiffness |
| Main Entry: | starch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stiff bearing |
Synonyms: |
ceremony, decorum, formality, stiffness |
| Main Entry: | thickness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | as a quality |
Synonyms: |
closeness, clot, compactness, concentration, density, fatness, heaviness, solidity, stiffness |
Antonyms: |
slenderness, slimness, thinness |