rigidity

The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability; the quality of resisting change of physical shape.

Noun

  1. The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability; the quality of resisting change of physical shape.
    • moral rigidity
    • The metal’s rigidity made it hard to bend.
    • She disliked the rigidity of the rules.
  2. The amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
    • structural rigidity
  3. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
    • speak with excessive rigidity
  4. stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.

Origin

From rigid + -ity, from Latin rigiditas.

Forms

rigidities

Synonyms

rigidness

Antonyms

flexibility ductility malleability softness

Derived

Born rigidity modulus of rigidity nonrigidity rigidity modulus semirigidity superrigidity