inflexibility

inflexibility
Synonyms and related words:
act of God, adamantness, certainty, concentration, constancy, dourness, fate, fatefulness, firmness, firmness of mind, fixedness, flintiness, force majeure, fundamentalism, grimness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardness, immobility, immobilization, immovability, immovableness, immutability, implacability, impliability, indefeasibility, inductility, inelasticity, ineluctability, inertia, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, inextensibility, inextricability, intractability, intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism, irreconcilability, irremovability, irresilience, irresiliency, irrevocability, loyalty, necessity, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, orthodoxy, precisianism, predetermination, purism, puritanism, relentlessness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, settledness, solidity, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, steeliness, sternness, stiff temper, stiffness, stubbornness, sureness, toughness, trueness, unalterability, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, unbendingness, unchangeability, uncompromisingness, uncontrollability, undeflectability, ungivingness, unlimberness, unmalleability, unmovability, unpliability, unpreventability, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vis inertiae, vis major

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  • 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;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • inflexibility — index severity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • inflexibility — 1610s, from INFLEXIBLE (Cf. inflexible) + ITY (Cf. ity) …   Etymology dictionary

  • inflexibility — n. inflexibility in * * * [ɪnˌfleksə bɪlɪtɪ] inflexibilityin …   Combinatory dictionary

  • inflexibility — inflexible ► ADJECTIVE 1) not able to be altered or adapted. 2) unwilling to change or compromise. 3) not able to be bent; stiff. DERIVATIVES inflexibility noun inflexibly adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • inflexibility — noun see inflexible …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • inflexibility — See inflexible. * * * …   Universalium

  • inflexibility — noun The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; obstinacy …   Wiktionary

  • inflexibility — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Solidity] Syn. rigidity, stiffness, stability, toughness, inflexibleness, temper, induration, ossification, petrifaction, fossilization, glaciation, crystallization, vitrification; see also firmness 2 . 2. [Stubbornness] Syn …   English dictionary for students

  • inflexibility — in·flex·i·bil·i·ty || ɪn‚fleksÉ™ bɪlÉ™tɪ n. lack of flexibility; immovability; rigidity, stiffness; stubbornness …   English contemporary dictionary

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