🪨 Becoming stiff 📐 Adding strict structure

rigidification

9.1

A process in which a material becomes stiff and hard to bend

noun
/ˌrɪdʒɪdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

: rigidificación

With the cold weather approaching, the rigidification of the earth will affect the planting schedule.

Examples

The rigidification of the metal made it difficult to bend into the desired shape.
Even Wordsworth, despite his sclerotic rigidification with time and age, affirmed the process of emergence rather than the entity that has emerged.

Academic text (1990)
The sudden rigidification of the policies left employees feeling trapped and unmotivated.

Synonyms

stiffening

vsrigidification

1 4.9

Something becomes hard and less flexible, for example in joints or fabric

is broader, covering both becoming stiff and causing stiffness

hardening

vsrigidification

1 4.6

A change in a material when it becomes more solid

focuses on stiffness rather than material solidification

rigidifying

vsrigidification

8.6

A change that makes something stiff and hard so it cannot bend

is the same process but named in a different grammatical form

Antonyms

softening

8 2.7

The process of becoming softer or less firm

How Stiff

solidification

Specialized

1 6.8

hardening

1 4.6

rigidification

9.1

stiffening

1 4.9

Surface Forms

rigidification singular

rigidifications plural

Morphology

rigidification = rigidify (transparent) = rigid + ify + ation

The step from the verb 'rigidify' to the noun with -ation is a regular, predictable nominalization.

Etymology

Rigidification comes from rigid meaning 'stiff' and the ending -fication meaning 'making', like in simplification. So rigidification is literally 'making something stiff', which is why we use it for materials or joints that become hard and lose flexibility.