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Rigidity vs Fluidity - What's the difference?

rigidity | fluidity |

As nouns the difference between rigidity and fluidity

is that 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 while fluidity is the state of being fluid rather than viscous.

rigidity

English

Noun

  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * rigidness

    Antonyms

    * flexibility * ductility * malleability * softness

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    fluidity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being fluid rather than viscous
  • (countable) A measure of the extent to which something is fluid. The reciprocal of its viscosity.
  • The quality of being fluid or free-flowing
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    Antonyms

    *viscosity