Definition of Rigidity

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Rigidity

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.

Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.

Severity; rigor.

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Rigidity Quotations

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media.
Noam Chomsky

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Pope Paul VI

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
Robert Heller

Rigidity Translations

rigidity in German is Steifheit, Starrheit
rigidity in Spanish is rigidez

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