Fecundity vs Rigidity - What's the difference?
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Ability to produce offspring.
* 2006 , , “Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett” in: Good Omens , Corgi, p. 410
Ability to cause growth.
Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
Rate of production of young by a female.
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.
Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
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.
As nouns the difference between fecundity and rigidity
is that fecundity is ability to produce offspring while rigidity is 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.fecundity
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* (qualifier)Noun
(en-noun)- In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.