[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stiffness \stiff"ness\, n.
   the quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of
   cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of
   character.
   1913 webster

         the vices of old age have the stiffness of it too.
                                                  --south.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

stiffness
     n 1: the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
     2: the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke
        with a painful stiffness in his neck"
     3: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed as by
        embarrassment syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness
     4: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
        of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
        syn: severity, harshness, rigor, rigour, inclemency,
         hardness
see also:
awkwardness clumsiness gracelessness severity harshness rigor 
rigour inclemency hardness 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

140 moby thesaurus words for "stiffness":
   adamantness, aridity, barrenness, bloodlessness, buckram,
   ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, characterlessness,
   cohesiveness, colorlessness, costliness, deadness, dearness,
   dignity, dismalness, dourness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness,
   dullness, durability, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation,
   extrinsicality, firmness, flatness, flintiness, form, formality,
   formalization, fundamentalism, gravity, great cost, grimness,
   hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardiness, hardness, heaviness,
   highness, hollowness, immovability, immutability, impliability,
   inanity, inelasticity, inexcitability, inexorability,
   inflexibility, infrangibility, insipidity, insipidness,
   intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism,
   irreconcilability, jejunity, lastingness, leadenness,
   leatherlikeness, lifelessness, lowness of spirit, luxuriousness,
   obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, orthodoxy, paleness, pallor,
   pointlessness, pokiness, pomp, pomposity, ponderousness,
   precisianism, primness, purism, puritanism, relentlessness,
   renitence, renitency, resistance, richness, rigidity, rigidness,
   rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, ritual, rituality, ropiness,
   slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, stamina, starchiness,
   steeliness, steepness, sterility, sternness, stiff temper,
   stiltedness, stodginess, strength, stringiness, stubbornness,
   stuffiness, stylization, sumptuousness, superficiality,
   tastelessness, tautness, tediousness, tenacity, tenseness, tension,
   tensity, tightness, toughness, unalterability, unbendingness,
   unbreakability, unbreakableness, unchangeability,
   uncompromisingness, ungivingness, uninterestingness, unliveliness,
   unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vapidity, vapidness, viscidity,
   vitality, weight, woodenness

Stiffness >> S Words
Stiffness, definition of term: Stiffness
stiffness_pag1.html

neck stiffness
...If the neck stiffness is due to a major injury or head trauma or if ... Neck stiffness can be simply a mild discomfort and slight problem in ... ..
http://www.northmemorial.com/HealthEncyclopedia/content/3155.asp, score=100, date indexed=January 19, 2006, 8:46 pm

ASB: ACUTE EFFECTS OF EXERCISE ON PASSIVE JOINT STIFFNESS
...... on passive knee joint stiffness. Passive knee joint stiffness was ... In a relaxed joint a considerable portion of joint stiffness can be ... ..
http://www.asb-biomech.org/onlineabs/abstracts96/ricard.html, score=100, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 2:00 am

News - Phantom Limb Stiffness Shows Central Nervous System Involved in ...
...... for each limb.. Similar patterns of perceived RA stiffness were found ... To test whether this subjective feeling of stiffness in a limb ... ..
http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256D1F0036EAAA, score=98, date indexed=January 15, 2006, 2:21 pm

Stiffness: Less is More
...... stiffness by peppering it with small bubbles of negative stiffness. In ... can be preserved in a background of positive stiffness material. In ... ..
http://focus.aps.org/v7/st13.html, score=96, date indexed=November 10, 2005, 9:49 pm

Neck, Back and Joint Stiffness
...To emphasize the process that causes most neck and back stiffness and ... A friend with chronic neck stiffness and migraines found relief by not ... ..
http://www.bodyzone.com/articles/article.html?id=20&pf=1, score=95, date indexed=January 10, 2006, 3:13 pm

News - Arterial Stiffness Index Works In Elderly Hypertensive Patients
..."Arterial stiffness index: A new evaluation for arterial stiffness in ... "Arterial stiffness index: A new evaluation for arterial stiffness in ... ..
http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256CC60075FCB9, score=86, date indexed=January 22, 2006, 5:55 am

a//content.10938
...Interaction of leg stiffness and surface stiffness. during human ... Interaction of leg. stiffness and surface stiffness during human ... ..
http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/82/1/15.pdf, score=84, date indexed=December 16, 2005, 12:51 am

...... OF MASS AND STIFFNESS MATRICES C KX MASS AND STIFFNESS MATRICES HAVE ... 4) GOTO 5 C C GET MASS AND STIFFNESS MATRICES IN X AND DETERMINE C ... ..
http://netlib2.cs.utk.edu/toms/685, score=83, date indexed=December 11, 2005, 2:42 am

...... OF MASS AND STIFFNESS MATRICES C KX MASS AND STIFFNESS MATRICES HAVE ... 4) GOTO 5 C C GET MASS AND STIFFNESS MATRICES IN X AND DETERMINE C ... ..
http://www.netlib.org/toms/685, score=83, date indexed=December 1, 2005, 9:03 pm

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