Crossword-Solution: RIGIDITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rigidity | n. | 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. |
| Rigidity | n. | Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance. |
| Rigidity | n. | Severity; rigor. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “RIGIDITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending | 1 answer |
| Unbending nature | 1 answer |
| PARKINSONISM, symptom of | 1 answer |
| TURGOR | 3 answers |
| Strictness | 5 answers |
| BODILY FIRMNESS | 10 answers |
| muscular action | 19 answers |
| muscular reaction | 24 answers |
| high hand | 31 answers |
| stiff neck | 37 answers |
| meagreness | 49 answers |
| Malady | 51 answers |
| starvation | 53 answers |
| firmness | 53 answers |
| ailment | 61 answers |
| Omission | 63 answers |
| Shrinking ___ | 64 answers |
| iron will | 65 answers |
| Absence | 67 answers |
| Shortage | 68 answers |
| "Want ___?" | 79 answers |
| De-crease? | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
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Sentences with RIGIDITY (5)
They would take neither the glow of passion nor the tenderness of sentiment, but retained all the rigidity of dead corpses, and stared me in the face with a fixed and ghastly grin of contemptuous defiance.
You used to tell me that you drew the very breath of life but for me, and for love of me.” “And to probe that love, you demanded that I should forfeit mine honour,” he said, whilst gradually his impassiveness seemed to leave him, his rigidity to relax; “that I should accept without murmur or question, as a dumb and submissive slave, every action of my mistress.
The IAS people had finally satisfied themselves that Miles Foster was a dissatisfied, underpaid government employee who had had enough of the immobility and rigidity of a giant bureaucratic machine that moves at a snails pace.
The young man was sitting upright, in an attitude, apparently habitual, of ceremonious rigidity; but his lower jaw had fallen and was propped up with his cane, and his dull dark eye was fixed upon the angle of the villa which had just eclipsed Miss Light and her companion.
Moreover, the flower of an ancient stem as he was, tradition (since I have used the word) had in his temperament nothing of disagreeable rigidity.
Quotes with RIGIDITY (3)
It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of all the regulations and precepts of civilization. Along with their pretended sanctity, these commandments and laws would lose their rigidity and unchangeableness as well. People could understand that they are made, not so much to rule them as, on the contrary, to serve their interests; and they would adopt a more friendly attitude to them, and instead of aim…
If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender — whatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one’s gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through.
... who can forget the amazement of a child balancing an adult on a see-saw, simply by being placed at the right position. How could this be? Where did all that extra force come from!? The only wonder nowadays is that a physics student is unlikely to produce a satisfactory answer to this question. Perhaps we will be offered a few mumblings about moments, force times distance, laws of the lever perhaps even the "principle of virtual work". But we probably won't get an answer t…