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Rigidity vs Rigid - What's the difference?

rigidity | rigid |

Rigid is a derived term of rigidity.



As a noun 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.

As an adjective rigid is

stiff, rather than flexible.

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

    References

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    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

    Related terms

    * rigor * rigour

    References

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