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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RIGID'ITY, n. [L. rigiditas.]
1. Stiffness; want of pliability; the quality of not being easily bent.
2. A brittle hardness, as opposed to ductibility, malleability and softness.
3. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or airy elegance.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending [syn: rigidity, rigidness]
2: the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn: inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1624 1. the quality or state of being rigid 2. one that is rigid (as in form or conduct)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rigidity Ri*gid"i*ty, n. [L. rigiditas: cf. F. rigidit['e]. See Rigid.] 1. 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. 2. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance. --Sir H. Wotton. 3. Severity; rigor. [Obs. orR.] --Bp. Burnet. Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see rigid

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Stiffness, inflexibility, rigidness, want of pliability. 2. Severity, rigor, harshness, strictness, austerity, rigidness. 3. Ungracefulness, want of ease, stiffness.

Moby Thesaurus

abidingness, absoluteness, accuracy, adamantness, attention to fact, care for truth, changelessness, concentration, constancy, correctness, delicacy, dourness, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, firmness, firmness of mind, fixedness, flawlessness, flintiness, frozenness, fundamentalism, grimness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardening, hardness, immobility, immobilization, immovability, immovableness, immutability, implacability, impliability, inelasticity, inertia, inexorability, inextricability, inflexibility, intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, irreconcilability, irremovability, lastingness, literalism, literality, literalness, long standing, loyalty, mathematical precision, meticulousness, niceness, nicety, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, orthodoxy, perfection, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, preciseness, precisianism, precision, purism, puritanism, quiescence, refinement, relentlessness, renitence, renitency, right, rightness, rigidness, rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, settledness, severity, solidity, stability, standing, starchiness, stasis, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, steeliness, sternness, stiff temper, stiffness, strictness, stubbornness, subtlety, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, textualism, the letter, tightness, torpor, toughness, trueness, unalterability, unbendingness, unchangeability, unchangingness, uncompromisingness, ungivingness, unmovability, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vis inertiae