noun. The quality or state of being rigid.

noun. An instance of being rigid.

noun. The quality of being rigid; stiffness; inflexibility; absence of pliancy; specifically, in mech., resistance to change of form.

noun. Strictness; severity; harshness: as, rigidity of principles or of censure.

noun. Synonyms Inflexibility. See austere, rigor.

noun. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.

noun. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.

noun. Severity; rigor.

noun. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.

noun. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.

noun. In Economics: synonym for stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.

noun. the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending

noun. the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

"Unions leaders denounced what they described as rigidity from their negotiating counterparts; government and management urged the unions to take into consideration the gravity of the situation of a company that had been losing some 2 million euros ($3 million) a day."

ductility  flexibility  malleability  softness  

cadaveric rigidity  coefficient of rigidity  modulus of rigidity  molecular rigidity  

unadaptability  

acidity  fluidity  humidity  liquidity  morbidity  

austerity  clearness  coldness  composure  dryness  

abidingness  absoluteness  accuracy  adamantness  attention to fact