rigidity

IPA: rɪdʒˈɪdʌti

The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability; the quality of resisting change of physical shape
The amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
(economics) stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.

Examples of "rigidity" in Sentences

The opposite of rigidity is flexibility.
The crosspiece gives rigidity to the structure.
The rigidity of the Soviet Union was legendary.
But with such a supple, sensitive and compassionate mind, rigidity is something you need never worry about.
Moreover, in the U.S. today, I think that a case can be made that wage rigidity is a major factor in the current business cycle.
There is a certain rigidity and politicization about the issue of child support, custody, and visitation that ignores the plight of fathers.
But we still confuse strength with rigidity, which is of questionable prudence as the percentage of Americans who say they are Christians decreases.
That unique combination of flashiness and rigidity is at the artificial heart of one larger-than-life movie that explodes right off the screen this weekend in theaters.
Unions leaders denounced what they described as rigidity from their negotiating counterparts; government and management urged the unions to take into consideration the gravity of the situation of a company that had been losing some 2 million euros ($3 million) a day.
Even now a certain German rigidity in Heisenberg can make Weisskopf bristle (he is himself Austrian), but he grants the main thing ” whatever ordinary human failings of which Heisenberg may have been guilty, he ran a bomb program for the Germans which could hardly have been better designed by the Allies themselves.