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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abidingness, absoluteness, accuracy, adamantness, attention to fact, care for truth, changelessness, concentration, constancy, correctness, delicacy, dourness, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, firmness, firmness of mind, fixedness, flawlessness, flintiness, frozenness, fundamentalism, grimness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardening, hardness, immobility, immobilization, immovability, immovableness, immutability, implacability, impliability, inelasticity, inertia, inexorability, inextricability, inflexibility, intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, irreconcilability, irremovability, lastingness, literalism, literality, literalness, long standing, loyalty, mathematical precision, meticulousness, niceness, nicety, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, orthodoxy, perfection, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, preciseness, precisianism, precision, purism, puritanism, quiescence, refinement, relentlessness, renitence, renitency, right, rightness, rigidness, rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, settledness, severity, solidity, stability, standing, starchiness, stasis, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, steeliness, sternness, stiff temper, stiffness, strictness, stubbornness, subtlety, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, textualism, the letter, tightness, torpor, toughness, trueness, unalterability, unbendingness, unchangeability, unchangingness, uncompromisingness, ungivingness, unmovability, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vis inertiae
Dictionary Results for rigidity:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
rigidity
    n 1: the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
         [syn: rigidity, rigidness]
    2: the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn:
       inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness] [ant:
       flexibility, flexibleness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rigidity \Ri*gid"i*ty\, n. [L. rigiditas: cf. F. rigidit['e].
   See Rigid.]
   1. 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; --
      opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and
      softness.
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   2. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or
      elegance. --Sir H. Wotton.
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   3. Severity; rigor. [Obs. orR.] --Bp. Burnet.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility.
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