rigidity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
rigid + -ity, from Latin rigiditas.
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Noun[edit]
rigidity (countable and uncountable, plural rigidities)
- The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability; the quality of resisting change of physical shape
- The amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
- Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
- (economics) stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.
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Translations[edit]
The quality or state of being rigid
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Stiffness of appearance or manner
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References[edit]
- “rigidity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.