Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rigidity.
- noun Synonyms See
rigor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being rigid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
rigid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
- noun the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
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Examples
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Something about her made her less approachable - Sumika has that kind of rigidness, I think.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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Something about her made her less approachable - Sumika has that kind of rigidness, I think.
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He doesn't hesitate to speak his mind while discussing the rigidness of traditional bluegrass, making sure to exclude events such as Telluride and Delfest, Del McCoury's Memorial Day weekend event in Maryland that they just played.
Michael Bialas: Faces of Telluride, Part 2: Dave Simonett, Furious-Pace Face Michael Bialas 2011
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With his not typical for a politician honesty he unknowingly exposes the ideological rigidness
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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He doesn't hesitate to speak his mind while discussing the rigidness of traditional bluegrass, making sure to exclude events such as Telluride and Delfest, Del McCoury's Memorial Day weekend event in Maryland that they just played.
Michael Bialas: Faces of Telluride, Part 2: Dave Simonett, Furious-Pace Face Michael Bialas 2011
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He doesn't hesitate to speak his mind while discussing the rigidness of traditional bluegrass, making sure to exclude events such as Telluride and Delfest, Del McCoury's Memorial Day weekend event in Maryland that they just played.
Michael Bialas: Faces of Telluride, Part 2: Dave Simonett, Furious-Pace Face Michael Bialas 2011
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In a blog accompanying the launch Gundotra says, the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools.
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Their natural appearance and movement break up the rigidness of perennial groupings—and they look different from season to season.
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In a blog accompanying the launch Gundotra says, the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools.
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In many ways, this is an improvement: much of my arrogance has been blunted, my naievity informed, my rigidness relaxed, my flightiness settled.
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