stiffness
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈstɪf.nəs/
:
rigidez
- She experienced stiffness in her shoulders after sitting at the computer for too long.
- tissue stiffness
- neck stiffness
- pain and stiffness
Dries clear, no flakes, stiffness or stickiness which no one wants.
- Dries clear, no flakes, stiffness or stickiness which no one wants.
- You can feel the shape and the size and the stiffness of a virtual object.
- And so we went through our leg stiffness exercises and then went for a trail run.
- Because GABA Nergic drugs are used for sleep, anxiety and muscle stiffness.
- I then put the jacket on the dress form and try to check if it already was enough of stability and stiffness, but of course it wasn't.
- The stiffness of the four foot pad is higher than the stiffness of the heel pad, meaning that it's better able to dampen the loads of landing.
- This matrix is not symmetric and linear stiffness matrices are always symmetric.
Examples
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The morning haze hadn't burned off yet, and he knew the stiffness in his legs usually predicted rain.
Fiction book (1996) -
When she gets up to throw a log in the fire, I notice a slight stiffness in her step.
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You can feel the shape and the size and the stiffness of a virtual object.
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Just a slight stiffness coming on in the shoulder.
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The patient presented to the author three months later with stiffness and pain at the interphalangeal joint.
Academic text (2012) -
The effect of heating was to increase stiffness for forces greater than 18 mmHg.
Academic text (1999) -
And most surprisingly, the keyboard is a joy to use, with this satisfying stiffness at the top of the keystroke that makes the travel feel longer than it is.
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It's just her particular body, her particular body's response to her life is that she's going to have some arthritis in her neck and have some, some stiffness there.
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After running for hours, I felt a stiffness in my legs that made it difficult to walk.
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The doctor explained that the stiffness in my joints could be a symptom of arthritis.
Synonyms
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5.5
A feeling of being squeezed in a part of the body
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6.0
Not able to bend or change shape easily
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2.4
Being solid and not easily moved when pressed
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6.4
A tight feeling in muscles that makes them hard to relax
Stiffness that makes something hard to bend
Stiffness that makes a body part or object hard to bend
Not able to bend the body or joints easily
The state of not changing much when something like a push or a price change acts on it
A refusal to change an opinion or action despite pressure
Antonyms
How Stiff
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stiffness comes from the adjective stiff and the ending -ness, where -ness means 'quality'. Stiff originally meant 'rigid' or 'hard to bend', so stiffness is the 'quality' of being hard to move, which is why we use it for tight muscles or sore joints.