rigidity

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.

Related

Similar words

• rigidness

Opposite words

• flexibility
• ductility
• malleability
• softness

Origin

• rigid + -ity, from Latin rigiditas.