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Rigid vs Hardness - What's the difference?

rigid | hardness |

As an adjective rigid

is rigid.

As a noun hardness is

the quality of being hard.

rigid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Stiff, rather than flexible.
  • Fixed, rather than moving.
  • * 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:
  • A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.
  • Rigorous and unbending.
  • Uncompromising.
  • Synonyms

    * unbending, inflexible

    Antonyms

    * flexible * moving * compromising

    Derived terms

    * rigidity * rigidly * rigidness

    References

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    hardness

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being hard.
  • An instance of this quality; hardship.
  • See also

    * hardiness

    References

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