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Inflexibility vs Sternness - What's the difference?

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Inflexibility is a related term of sternness.


As nouns the difference between inflexibility and sternness

is that inflexibility is the quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; obstinacy while sternness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being stern.

inflexibility

English

Noun

  • The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; obstinacy.

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    sternness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
    • There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.
  • (countable) The result or product of being stern.