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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a lack of physical flexibility;
[syn: inflexibility, inflexibleness]

2. the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe;
[syn: inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Inflexibility \In*flex"i*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. inflexibilit['e].] The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. [1913 Webster] The inflexibility of mechanism. --A. Baxter. [1913 Webster] That grave inflexibility of soul. --Churchill. [1913 Webster] The purity and inflexibility of their faith. --T. Warton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

inflexibility n 1: a lack of physical flexibility [syn: inflexibility, inflexibleness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness] 2: the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn: inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness]