Synonyms:
stiffness
Meaning: the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
Synonyms:
stiffness
Meaning: the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
Usage examples
It was as if the stiffness melted.
Dick sprang down gladly, but staggered a little at first from the stiffness of his legs.
"They're sure strong enough," David agreed, flexing his fingers to take the stiffness out of them.
At first I thought they seemed small, but a stiffness due to cold and dryness misled me--a little stretching and all was well.
There could be seen a certain stiffness in the movements of his body, as if he were taking infinite care not to arouse the passion of his wounds.
Know this, and remember it well, that every other preparation than thinking what you are about to say, will make you acquire two intolerable faults, affectation and stiffness.
This place, upon which I had at last happened, was a fruit of the reaction of artistic-minded and carelessly living people against the costly and uncomfortable social stiffness of the more formal seaside resorts of that time.