rigidness

Other forms of rigidness

plural

rigidnesses·

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 rigidness

What does rigidness mean?

rigidness means "the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rigidness?

rigidness has 3 syllables: ri-gid-ness. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for rigidness?

Close synonyms include rigidity, inflexibility, rigidity. 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.

Is rigidness a common word?

rigidness 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.