inflexibility

Other forms of inflexibility

plural

inflexibilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inflexibility

What does inflexibility mean?

inflexibility means "a lack of physical flexibility". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inflexibility?

inflexibility has 6 syllables: in-flex-i-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for inflexibility?

Close synonyms include inflexibleness, rigidity, rigidness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of inflexibility?

The recorded antonyms are flexibility, flexibility.

Is inflexibility a common word?

inflexibility is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with inflexibility?

48 words rhyme with inflexibility. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.