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inflexibility
inflexibility
3 definitions found
for inflexibility
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Inflexibility \In*flex"i*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
inflexibilit['e].]
The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of
being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness;
rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity;
steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy.
[1913 Webster]
The inflexibility of mechanism. --A. Baxter.
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That grave inflexibility of soul. --Churchill.
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The purity and inflexibility of their faith. --T.
Warton.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
inflexibility
n 1: a lack of physical flexibility [syn: inflexibility,
inflexibleness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness]
2: the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn:
inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness] [ant:
flexibility, flexibleness]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "inflexibility":
act of God, adamantness, certainty, concentration, constancy,
dourness, fate, fatefulness, firmness, firmness of mind, fixedness,
flintiness, force majeure, fundamentalism, grimness,
hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardness, immobility,
immobilization, immovability, immovableness, immutability,
implacability, impliability, indefeasibility, inductility,
inelasticity, ineluctability, inertia, inescapableness,
inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness,
inexorability, inextensibility, inextricability, intractability,
intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism,
irreconcilability, irremovability, irresilience, irresiliency,
irrevocability, loyalty, necessity, obduracy, obdurateness,
obstinacy, orthodoxy, precisianism, predetermination, purism,
puritanism, relentlessness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorism,
rigorousness, settledness, solidity, staunchness, steadfastness,
steadiness, steeliness, sternness, stiff temper, stiffness,
stubbornness, sureness, toughness, trueness, unalterability,
unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, unbendingness,
unchangeability, uncompromisingness, uncontrollability,
undeflectability, ungivingness, unlimberness, unmalleability,
unmovability, unpliability, unpreventability, unrelentingness,
unyieldingness, vis inertiae, vis major