rigidity

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 3.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   moral rigidity

2. noun The amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.

   structural rigidity

3. noun Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.

   speak with excessive rigidity

4. noun stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.

Similar words

inflexibility rigidness stubbornness stiffness intransigence rigour stringency rigor strictness stillness

Often followed by

of and in is to or that which with

Word family

rigid rigidities rigidly