inflexibility

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=flex=i=bil=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

inflexibility, n. [Cf. F. inflexibilité.].

 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; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy.  [1913 Webster]
"The inflexibility of mechanism."  [1913 Webster]
"That grave inflexibility of soul."  [1913 Webster]
"The purity and inflexibility of their faith."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

inflexibility

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

ROGET THESAURUS

inflexibility

Obstinacy

N obstinacy, obstinateness, obstinacy, tenacity, cussedness, perseverance, immovability, old school, inflexibility, obduracy, obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side, self-will, contumacy, perversity, pervicacy, pervicacity, indocility, bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism, opiniatry, opiniativeness, fixed idea, fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness, mule, opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator, stickler, dogmatist, bigot, zealot, enthusiast, fanatic, obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened, inflexible, balky, immovable, unshakable, not to be moved, inert, unchangeable, inexorable, mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed, dogged, sullen, sulky, unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected, willful, self-willed, perverse, resty, restive, restiff, pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly, heady, headstrong, entete, contumacious, crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted, prejudiced, creed- bound, prepossessed, infatuated, stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted, hard-mouthed, hidebound, unyielding, impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible, unpersuadable, intractable, untractable, incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason, crotchety, obstinately, non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie.

Straightness

N straightness, rectilinearity, directness, inflexibility, straight line, right line, direct line, short cut, straight, rectilinear, rectilineal, direct, even, right, true, in a line, unbent, virgate, undeviating, unturned, undistorted, unswerving, straight as an arrow, inflexible, laser-straight, ramrod-straight.

Hardness

N hardness, rigidity, renitence, renitency, inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction, lapidification, lapidescence, vitrification, ossification, crystallization, stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant, bone, cartilage, hardware, heart of oak, block, board, deal board, iron, steel, cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron, nail, brick, concrete, cement, hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm, starch, starched, stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, proof, adamant, adamantine, adamantean, concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous, horny, corneous, bony, osseous, ossific, cartilaginous, hard as a rock, stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker, stiff as starch, stiff as as board.