Dictionary Definition
inflexibility
Noun
1 a lack of physical flexibility [syn: inflexibleness] [ant:
flexibility]
2 the quality of being rigid and rigorously
severe [syn: rigidity]
[ant: flexibility]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
inflexibility- The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; obstinacy.
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Synonyms, Antonyms 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