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stiffness

noun
  1. excessive sternness
    severity
  2. the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
    awkwardnessclumsinessgracelessness
  3. firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
    “a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity”
  4. the property of moving with pain or difficulty
    “They awoke with a painful stiffness in their neck.”
  5. the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend